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Ways We Are Distinctive
•Requirement of course in conflict resolution
for the major and an emphasis in that in our co-curricular life.
•Teamwork in diverse groups. In our major 40% of the students
are international, African-American or Hispanic in background.
•Emphasis on collaborative decision making and consensus
building, which our graduates say they use all the time even where
the boss will make the final decision; Kellogg Foundation gave
us a grant to train leaders in business and nonprofits through
community leadership groups and develop materials on the topic.
•Likelihood of going on a semester off-campus
program (Northern
Ireland, Borders,
Germany/Austria,
and the Haiti May term have all served our students well with
course work and internship experience). This experience seems
key for the development of business and nonprofit leaders. Our
own faculty lead most of these programs. New
York Arts and Philadelphia
Center also provide terrific internships for our majors.
•Combination of several social sciences as the grounding
for understanding the role and functions of organizations and
individuals and groups in them; most business programs in colleges
rely primarily on economics as the core discipline.
•Emphasis on government, nonprofits and business, which
we think is important, given the complex relationships among the
sectors in the US and other countries.
•Possibility of collaborative research projects with faculty
and a small group of students on topics of particular interest
to students, eg., the research group next semester on organizations
serving the poor and marginalized populations.
•Leadership opportunities on campus galore, including some
unusual roles for undergraduates on important governance bodies
for the college committees. as well as student-led groups.
•We are accustomed to working with students with double
majors and with those who want a minor. Recent students have combined
a range of disciplines with management-- economics, biology, psychology,
geology, art.
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