#004 Eastern Kentucky University Used Extensive Research to Achieve What Many See as Impossible - A New MBA Program!

Our conversation focused on:
• How the coming baby drought will affect the future of business education?
• How generational behavior will affect the future of business education?
• How changes in the behavior of the middle classes will affect the future of business education?
• How gender shifts will affect the future of business education?
• How urbanization will affect the future of business education?
• How technological advances will affect the future of business education?
• How a culture of sharing will affect the future of business education?
• How changes in the medium of exchange will affect the future of business education?

Wharton Professor Mauro Guillén, recently named dean of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and author of 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything joined me to discuss how B-School deans and graduate program leaders can prepare their programs for 2030 and beyond.

Making graduate program management simple is almost never a consideration during the design phase of a new graduate program. Georgia State University's new MS in Human Resource Management program is an exception.

In this episode, two program faculty members discuss how the new program's design makes program management simple. Join me as we discuss how the program uses rubrics to track overall skill development progress for individual students and for the program; how metrics guide program data collection and reporting; how the program can track meta level skills by student; how the program gathers faculty input about student performance by using Qualtrics; and more.

During 2019 graduate management education was criticized for not being relevant. At the end of January, I received a press release from GSU titled “Georgia State’s Master’s in H.R. Management Responds to Emerging Business Needs.” I thought, here’s a response to that criticism, I wonder how they did it? Two GSU faculty are here today to help us understand the how.

During this podcast you will learn:
• How to scope and evaluate industry projects to align with learning outcomes
• How to identify mis-matched expectations and facilitate re-alignment
• 5 Practical Lessons from 5+ years’ experience facilitating industry-engaged experiential learning to 5000+ students

My guest for this webinar is Nikki James, VP of Learning & Experience, Practera, a company whose mission is to make it easy to design and deliver world-class experiential learning programs