This year we're facing the challenges that come with success. We're are seeing the growth of our investment these past two years. We’ve received news of our first endowed chair for 2004 in the form of a major gift from Compass Bank. It creates the Charles E. McMahen Endowed Chair in Accountancy & Taxation. Charles McMahen is a distinguished accounting alumnus and veteran Texas banker and rancher who recently retired from Compass Bank as Vice Chairman and head of Corporate Development and Corporate Banking.

We're building a new undergraduate curriculum with an innovative global cluster of courses encompassing the economic, political, and historical knowledge necessary to do business internationally. A new business law and ethics module is being developed drawing on the expertise of dozens of professionals who’ve participated in our Leadership and Ethics Weeks. A new certificate program in the business of natural gas taught jointly with the school of engineering will soon be introduced. We’re exploring a revitalized joint JD MBA and advanced graduate electives in legal issues surrounding the energy industry.

In this issue of the Dean’s Journal, you’ll take a walk into the Houston Fortune 500 community and also see the writing methods and current research of a renowned business-management author.

We’ll continue to shine the spotlight on our amazing corporate partners and world-class faculty so that you can share our enthusiasm for the quality business education available here at the Bauer College of Business.

Sincerely,

Arthur Warga
Dean, Bauer College of Business and
Judge James A. Elkins Professor

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