WALKER SCHOOL TIMELINE May 2012
“Your teamwork and your dedication have gone beyond the day’s assignment or the semester’s project. It has been directed into making those around you better. That, my friends, is a skill you will find as invaluable as the degree you are awarded today.” - Dean Akande, at Commencement 2012, to the Walker School’s more than 600 undergraduates and graduates.
June 2012
The Walker School welcomes more than 100 recruits from area businesses and nonprofits for Social Media 101: A Business Boot Camp. The special half-day seminar was geared toward giving attendees tips and tactics to use for their own social media marketing needs. Dr. James Brasfield, professor and chair of the management department, is quoted in the New York Times as part of the newspaper’s Supreme Court coverage surrounding the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Brasfield is a national expert on healthcare and the author of Health Policy: The Decade Ahead. Dr. Al Marcella, an international expert in information technology security, co-authors the book Cyber Forensics: From Data to Digital Evidence (Wiley Corporate F&A).
August 2012
The Walker School introduces its new BS in Mobile Computing. Students in the course will learn the programming skills necessary to become proficient in developing mobile applications for portable computing devices that access the Internet. CNN features sports economist Dr. Patrick Rishe in its reports on cyclist Lance Armstrong.
September 2012
Dean Akande’s op-ed “Oreo Cookies, the Olympics and Education” appears in University Business.
November 2012
Dr. David Pendleton, associate fellow from the Saïd Business School athe University of Oxford, joins the faculty of the Walker School as a visiting professor. During his first month at Webster University, Dr. Pendleton conducts a management seminar and addresses the Walker Speaker Series on the topic “A New Approach to Leadership.” The City of St. Louis proclaims November 8, 2012 “Yolanda Kakabadse Day” in honor of the Walker School’s Global Leader in Residence.
December 2012
Clayton, Missouri, honors Dean Akande with its 2012 Pillar in the Community Award. The Walker School announces its first online cohort. The cohort with the Ford Motor CoMPANY and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) will offer courses for those pursing a MA in Management and Leadership at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
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