Archive for September, 2013

News from our India social entrepreneurship pilot

I just got a newsy email from Steve Moertel, an E/M major who is working his internships and NGO responsibilities near Bangalore as part of the social entrepreneurship program. It’s simply an amazing opportunity and he is taking full advantage of this experience. Here’s what he said: For me, the adjustments have been tough, but […]

RateMyProfessors.com 2013 ranks Gustavus 16th in the country

Wow, I sure missed this story! The Huffington Post shared the 2013 RateMyProfessors.com Best Professors ranking and Gustavus is 16th. I knew I was surrounded by greatness here. How cool to be a part of this faculty now! And, although RMP has its issues, the increasing body of research shows it is not so easy […]

Management students visit community partner

The Conflict Management course students heard today how LifeWorks staff helps their clients and families be successful in wage-paying jobs, giving people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to work. It was amazing. I know people who work in human services have complex and demanding jobs— the number of people and the variety of stakeholders with […]

Gustie Management grad scores a blog on HuffPost

A former student sent me an email this afternoon with the link to Jenna Christensen’s ’13 Huffington Post blog entry. Jenna wants all her Millennial peers to embrace social networking tools like Twitter and Instagram as ways to share industry-relevant information and more substantial conversation-starters than what someone had for dinner that night. It’s a […]