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My passion for Saint Rose comes from working closely with students, particularly the Student Association officers. I am inspired by them, watching them grow from young college students into leaders in many different fields. My hope is that with this gift, we will create a highly innovative learning environment and that Saint Rose will become known for business graduates who know how to be entrepreneurial, work in teams and to be the kind of visionaries that will drive this economy forward.
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— RICHARD J. HUETHER
include Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, Hugh Johnson Advisors, LLC, Tri-City Rentals and The Albany Agency, LLC. The College also sets and retains high academic standards, further strengthened in recent years by the senior capstone courses and dual degree programs such as the BS/MBA and the JD/MBA program with Albany Law School. Another distinctive feature that has become a signature of the Saint Rose MBA is the MBA Plus option in which students can add specialty extensions to their MBA such as not-for-profit management, computer information systems, financial planning, and organizational leadership and change management. The efforts have paid off: in 2004 to 2009, undergraduate enrollment rose 36 percent and graduate enrollment by 43 percent. By growing and improving its facilities, the business school will be able to meet demand: its 17 percent enrollment growth for 2010-11 represented the largest enrollment growth of the College’s four schools. And within four years of completion, the new Huether School of Business is expected to contribute to a 35-percent rise of undergraduate enrollment and 25-percent increase in graduate enrollment.
Branding — Enhancing Visibility and Reputation for the School of Business The Huether School of Business will also complete the “campus within a campus” on Madison Avenue, joining the Massry Center for the Arts and the William Randolph Hearst Center for Communications and Interactive Media, serving as the hub for management training across all disciplines. Students will more fully realize crossover opportunities
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between courses in business, communications, music industry and art. As the Thelma P. Lally School of Education on the opposite side of Madison cemented the College’s reputation for training high-quality educators at all levels, the new Huether School of Business will greatly enhance the College’s reputation for developing leaders in the private sector, both close to home and around the world, giving the School of Business a brand name all its own. “We have always done great things, moved our students into important and influential leadership positions in business and finance,” said Dean Severin Carlson. “But the general public and business community might not have realized it because we have never been visible. We lacked an identity as the result of not having a place to call home. Now people will know us as the Huether School of Business.” In 2008, prominent executives in real estate, finance, global business and technology began lending their expertise, when the 19-member School of Business Advisory Council was established to help shape the future of the College’s business school. Giving the school its own “home,” an idea backed by the College leadership, topped their list of recommendations. In October 2010, the Board of Trustees echoed their wishes, approving an initiative to renovate and expand 994 Madison Avenue.
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