Quality learning

The college is committed to emphasizing teaching excellence and developing student behaviors that actively promote better learning.

MU’s business school has always emphasized effective – in fact, excellent – teaching because it is essential to quality learning. Faculty members in the college have earned 20 university-wide or state-level teaching and advising awards since 2000. “Excellent teaching and, more broadly, quality learning are at the core of what we do,” says Dean Bruce Walker. Quality learning requires a broad-based effort that extends to developing a mindset in students to not only be prepared for their classes but also participate actively in the college’s educational activities. Likewise, this effort includes assuring that all of the college’s instructors, including doctoral students and part-time faculty members, are well prepared for their teaching responsibilities.

Of course, the college’s curricula and other educational programs are integral to quality learning. In that regard, teaching methods and class sizes are varied to meet the needs of different groups of students, stretching from freshmen to PhD students. In addition, new programs are designed to serve selected students. A prime example is the new Cornell Leadership Program, which is intended to attract the “best and brightest” students to the College of Business and to provide them with distinctive, challenging, and stimulating learning experiences.

Last Edited: 3/10/2008