How has the UTs unique curriculum evolved over that time and, in turn, how has that affected the schools admissions process?
At the time [when I arrived] — in the ’80’s — we offered a very traditional MBA program. It was a lock-step program that was taught in functional silos, with just one capstone course taught at the end of the two-year period. In 1991, our former associate dean was part of a commission that took a look at the future of graduate management education. Business educators had received feedback from industry that we weren’t producing the kind of leaders that they needed to take their organizations successfully into the 21st Century. So they gave many of the business schools cause to pause to evaluate and assess their MBA programs. As a result of direct feedback from that commission, and our interaction and feedback with corporate America, our alumni, and our students, we took a hard and fast look at our specific program and made some pretty dramatic changes at that time. Q: Such as? A: We took the first year of the program and tore down the walls between the functional areas of business. We
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