EMBRACING NEW DIRECTIONS TOGETHER
For more than a century, the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business has pursued Duquesne’s distinctive mission—serving God by serving students—while fueling Pittsburgh’s growth as a center of industry and commerce. Much has changed since the founding of the School of Business in 1913. Yet our Spiritan commitment to innovation, ethics and the idea that business should be a force for good has not wavered in over 100 years.
Today we have new aspirations and face new challenges. Business education in the 21st century demands advanced technology and state-of-the-art facilities to support student-focused experiences and projects. To achieve our distinctive vision for the future, we are creating physical spaces that support, enhance and nurture student learning, corporate engagement and faculty research.
CENTER OF EXCELLENCE CONCEPTS
Our campaign to transform Rockwell Hall will take the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business to new heights of excellence.
To become a premier business school recognized for impactful scholarship and for transforming students, we will create Centers of Excellence that build on our existing strengths and seize new opportunities. These Centers are important platforms for developing innovative educational programs, improving our facilities, supporting faculty research and building collaborative partnerships.
Rather than being “all things to all people,” we will develop distinctive superiority in fields that leverage our strengths and align with important business trends.
Centers of Excellence include:
• Center for Leadership in Professional Selling
• Investment Strategy Institute
• Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management
• Center for Excellence in Entrepreneurship
• Institute for Ethics in Business
• Institute for Sustainable Business Innovation
CREATING A WELCOMING, FLEXIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
The School of Business is renowned for incorporating sustainability across its curriculum. Respect for the “integrity of creation” is an important Spiritan value. Moreover, embracing sustainability in our own facilities underscores its importance as a business principle. It also demonstrates our environmental stewardship and commitment to the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) that promote and reinforce the values-based global education we provide students.
As we embrace the future, we will emphasize compelling academic programs that cut across disciplinary boundaries and impart the “practical wisdom” sought by 21st century organizations. We will offer every student deeply transformative experiences embedded in what we call a ‘cornerstone-to-capstone’ approach. In essence, students should have impactful hands-on experiences that instill entrepreneurial thinking from the moment they arrive on campus until the time they graduate.
We are committed to redefining our facilities to reflect the needs of 21st century business education. This requires spaces that fully immerse students in active learning:
• Laboratory and simulation spaces supporting technology-intensive activities;
• “Sandbox” or experimental design/incubation areas in which students can contemplate innovative solutions, brainstorm new venture ideas and engage in basic prototyping;
• A mix of flexibly-furnished classrooms and breakout rooms; and
• Large meeting and conference-related spaces to support graduate and executive education programs and events that engage business partners, alumni and advisory councils.
These spaces will be surrounded by welcoming and innovative entrance areas and features—the “wow” factor required to impress prospective students and visitors—as well as informal common spaces in which students can gather, relax and informally exchange ideas.
TRANSFORMING ROCKWELL FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF BUSINESS LEADERS
The Palumbo-Donahue School of Business maintains an enviable reputation for excellence. It has held the prestigious AACSB accreditation continuously since 1962, is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, Princeton Review and other respected observers, and has received global recognition for programs in ethics and sustainability.
Please join us in the campaign to transform Rockwell Hall. The University is committing significant resources to provide basic infrastructure upgrades to Rockwell, but creating cutting-edge learning spaces we need cannot come soon enough. Indeed, the urgency of this initiative will require unprecedented philanthropic support from generous benefactors like you. A wide range of naming opportunities is available for both facilities and programmatic support.
To learn more or Make a Gift commitment, please contact Adam Viers.
412.396.1322
viersa@duq.edu
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