Sauder professors emeriti and former deans gather for the annual Emeritus Lunch On November 25, 2011, the annual Emeritus Lunch took place in the new Big 4 Conference Centre in the Sauder School of Business, following a tour of Sauder’s revitalized facilities.
Recently inaugurated, the Big 4 Conference Centre occupies the 9th floor of the newly-renovated tower in the Henry Angus Building. It was named in recognition of a major gift from the four professional services firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. ■
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Bottom row, left to right: Larry Moore, Bob Kelly, Peter Lusztig, Philip White, Larry Jones, Ricco Mattessich. Top row, left to right: Tom Ross, Bernhard Schwab, Skip Walter, Stan Hamilton, Dean Daniel Muzyka, Trevor Heaver, Gail Robertson, Merle Ace, Rick Pollay, Brian Bemmels, Jim Forbes
Ch’nook and VIU sign regional partnership MOU In December, Vancouver Island University (VIU) and Ch’nook Indigenous Business Education, which is headquartered at Sauder, marked the beginning of a new partnership. Building on a previous affiliation, VIU will expand its role as a regional partner to enhance the Ch’nook Scholars program for Aboriginal students seeking post-secondary business education. The new partnership will also aim to boost awareness surrounding business and management career opportunities among First Nations high school students on Vancouver Island. “We are excited to welcome VIU’s Faculty of Management as Ch’nook’s Regional Partner,” said Rick Colbourne, Assistant Dean, Indigenous Business Education at the Sauder School of Business. “Ch’nook contributes to the sustainable economic development and self-determination of First Nation communities in British Columbia. This will enable us to have a stronger local focus that is closer to the First Nation communities that we serve,” noted Colbourne, who also serves as director of Ch’nook Indigenous Business Education. The Ch’nook initiative—aimed at increasing First Nations participation in post-secondary business education—originated a decade ago at the Sauder School of Business. It has evolved with the support of the provincial government, post-secondary business education programs in BC, corporations and other sponsors. ■
Competitions see Sauder students soar MBAs and undergraduates excelled at academic competitions held January 6–8, making it a weekend of success. The MBA team, from Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School, placed third overall at the MBA Games 2012 at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton—the best placement ever for the school. More than 600 students, from 20 universities, competed at the games, making it Canada’s largest gathering of MBA students. At Queen’s University in Kingston, Sauder came in second overall in the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition, Canada’s oldest business case competition. In the individual categories, Sauder took second place in MIS, third place in accounting and fourth place in business policy. ■
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