2022-2023 Dean's Report: Collins College of Business

Dean’s ReporT

2022–2023

Educating students to step into global leadership is the mission of the Collins College of Business. We achieve this mission by recruiting and retaining top notch faculty, staff, and students. Our achievement is shown by the impact being made by our alumni network around the world. Whether it is developing a nonprofit to support the education of kids in New Mexico, building a company that lives the goals of both clean energy and good community values, or constructing the second tallest building in the world, the foundation of skills and values of these alumni was built in the halls of Helmerich Hall at the Collins College of Business.

Our rigorous academic curriculum and small class size, combined with impactful co-curricular opportunities and internships, provide our students with a dynamic learning experience. Collins College students experience international corporate cultures while participating in programs around the world, including study-abroad in Sweden and Italy. They develop innovation and team presentation skills as they compete (and win) the prestigious statewide Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup. They manage a $7 million investment fund, with earnings providing scholarship opportunities to fellow students. Their leadership skills are honed as they lead and execute organizations like TEDxUTulsa, bringing in speakers from around the country to discuss issues impacting the world.

Students explore career pathways while receiving mentorship from our involved and dedicated group of alumni, community, and corporate stakeholders. Monthly Friends of Finance luncheons allow students to engage with local companies while learning from world-class business leaders. Faculty deliver groundbreaking research that drives curriculum, business decisions, and societal impact.

Our strategic plan is built on the input and expertise of our most committed stakeholders including alumni, faculty, students, university, and corporate colleagues. This plan is delivering transformational change for our students and our community that is influencing a rapidly changing world. We invite you to join us and share our message as we continue to be at the forefront of addressing the disruption occurring in business and in business education.

Kathy Taylor Genave King Rogers Dean Collins College of Business The University of Tulsa

kathy-taylor@utulsa.edu

AT COLLINS COLLEGE, OUR MISSION IS TO EMPOWER THE NEXT GENERATION OF BUSINESS LEADERS.

Our faculty offer a personalized, transformative curriculum that prepares students to become forward-thinking problem solvers in this rapidly changing world. We want students to embrace the challenges of academic rigor through “real world” experiences that utilize both local and global connections to our diverse network of companies and leaders. Our students are the future of business and will positively impact the world. Their experiences at the Collins College of Business will open the doors to their future.

Alumni, stakeholders, faculty, staff and students came together to develop the Collins College of Business Strategic Plan in spring 2022. This plan guides us in fulfilling our mission of empowering the next generation of business leaders. Our strategy is guided by focus in the following areas:

STRATEGIC GOAL 1: Student Experience

We want our students to become lifelong ambassadors for our college, inspired and transformed by their personalized experience at Collins College. Actions to enhance the student experience include:

• Introducing options for international leadership development programs for MBA students.

• Developing capstone projects with national and international clients that provide opportunity for our students to make societal impact.

• Updating our energy studies programs to ensure students are prepared for today’s rapidly changing energy industries.

• Providing diverse student organization experiences that enhance a student’s leadership skills and connection with Collins College while enhancing retention.

• Exploring innovative learning options that leverage our unique brand of personalized education.

• Dedicating resources and talent while leaning into innovation and entrepreneurship, energy, analytics, and real estate education while elevating student experience.

• Establishing a Dean’s Student Advisory Council for immediate input and feedback on strategic and tactical opportunities.

• Providing undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to consult on projects benefiting underserved communities in Tulsa.

• Striving to recruit a diverse student talent base at the undergraduate and graduate level.

DEVELOPING LEADERS.

STRATEGIC GOAL 2: Faculty and Staff

We strive to ensure our faculty and staff focus on their passions and genuinely feel valued and balanced so that energy spills into the hallways of Collins College. Actions to enhance the faculty and staff experience include:

• Supporting incentives to regularly update curriculum and teaching methods for relevancy, rigor, and innovation.

• Supporting our faculty in their research and rewarding faculty who are published in high-quality journals.

• Clearly communicating expectations, opportunities and responsibilities of faculty and staff.

• Continually updating and communicating college and academic unit promotion and tenure policies, procedures, and benchmarks.

• Committing to recruiting diverse, qualified, and exceptional faculty and staff.

STRATEGIC GOAL 3: Business and Community Engagement

We are grateful to have an active alumni and business community who engage with and support Collins College. Their confidence in the education we provide ensures they seek our graduates for employment. Actions to enhance business and community engagement include:

• Initiating community and business leaders serving as mentors to our students.

• Promoting Executive Advisory Board members as integral in developing relationships that lead to internships and jobs for our students.

• Striving to increase financial support from alumni and stakeholders to grow faculty support and student experiences.

CONNECTING FOR IMPACT. EMBRACING INNOVATION.

• Hosting regular college and community events to facilitate engagement among a diverse group of students, faculty, alumni, and businesses.

• Regularly inviting local and national business leaders to share their experiences with students and lead classroom discussions.

• Involving our stakeholders in the strategic growth initiatives of the College in the areas of energy, accounting, real estate, innovation, and graduate education.

• Conducting an annual survey of stakeholders aimed for continuous improvement.

STRATEGIC GOAL 4: Brand–Making a Societal Impact

TU is the City of Tulsa’s only 4-year research university based in Tulsa. TU’s Strategic Plan calls for the university to be an economic driver of the city and region’s growth. Actions to achieve this goal and be a force for growth and good in the region include:

• Connecting with local entrepreneurs and funders to increase opportunity for entrepreneurial growth and for underrepresented groups to succeed.

• Engaging with local economic development and philanthropic organizations to provide research and support to address challenges such as access to healthy foods, access to transportation, organ donations in tribal populations, affordable housing access in the Tulsa metropolitan area, workforce policies, and innovative energy applications.

• Fostering faculty service on engines for community impact including the Tulsa Area United Way, Tulsa Economic Development Corporation, 36 Degrees North, Tulsa’s basecamp for Entrepreneurs, and Stitchcrew, a business accelerator for underrepresented groups.

• Creating an innovation center designed to commercialize TU-centric intellectual property with a focus on substantive societal impact.

STRATEGIC GOAL 5: Operations

The foundation for achieving all our strategic goals is to ensure transparent and well-functioning operations. Actions to achieve this outcome include:

• Promoting faculty, staff and student access to technology that provides the most up to date learning, allowing them to be integrated in our rapidly changing world.

• Facilitating faculty, staff, and student input in design updates and renovation of Helmerich Hall to support the execution of the College’s Strategic Plan.

• Updating policies and processes to improve the quality and efficiency of service and effectively communicate changes to faculty, staff, and students.

• Updating job responsibilities for chairs and staff, and periodically evaluate college committee structure.

• Hosting quarterly updates with partners in Admissions, Student Success, CaneCareers, Development, the Graduate School, and International Programs to enhance transparency.

SMALL BUT MIGHTY.

SCHOLARSHIPS

58 ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS

Matched to students by financial aid based on criteria established by the donor.

UNDERGRADUATE FRIENDS OF FINANCE

• $20,000 ($5,000 per year for four years)

THUNDER FELLOWS

• Awards 2 full-tuition scholarships to those who graduate from the Thunder Fellows Program.

GRADUATE MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS

• Awards up to 25% of tuition

DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIPS

• Dean’s Excellence Scholarship Awards up to 75% of tuition

• Dean’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Scholarship Awards up to 75% of tuition

• Dean’s Need-Based Scholarship Awards up to 75% of tuition

PLACEMENT

TOP EMPLOYERS

• Ernst & Young

• Williams

• Magellan Midstream Partners

• Grant Thornton LLP

• ConocoPhillips

• ONEOK

• Paycom

COLLINS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

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