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AGSM hires new dean Seung Ho “Sam” Park — an author, management strategist and leading scholar — will take over as the new dean of Atkinson Graduate School of Management in August.
Debra Ringold, who has served as dean since
2007, will return to the faculty after a sabbatical year.
Attending Willamette pays you back
An expert on emerging markets, Park has led,
Willamette is featured in two Princeton Review guide books
advised and consulted for organizations around the
this year — ”The Best 382
world during his 30-year career. He has also
Colleges” and “Colleges That
taught at Rutgers University, the University of Texas at Dallas, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.
Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck.” Only 7 percent of four-year colleges nationwide appear in “Colleges That Pay You Back.”
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The number of Tokyo International University students who arrived at Willamette in February to join the American Studies Program. The students hail from Japan, China, Thailand, Peru, South Korea and Taiwan.
AGSM launches podcast The Atkinson Graduate School of Management is sharing its faculty members’ expertise via a new podcast. Atkinson Archive, which launched this spring, will also showcase the perspectives of alumni, faculty, staff and students on life at the school. First up was Mike Hand, professor of applied statistics and information systems, talking about the evolution of the tools available to work with data, as well as memories of his nearly 40 years at AGSM.
Check it out at willamette.edu/go/agsm-podcast.
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SPRING 2018
Chamber Choir makes special performance For the 18th time in the 35-year tenure of Wallace Long, director of choral activities, a Willamette choral ensemble was selected to give an honorific performance for the American Choral Directors Association Northwest Regional Convention. In March, the chamber choir performed four selections at the historic First Congregational Church in downtown Portland. For the opening piece, “Les Chants des Oyeaux” by Renaissance composer Clément Janequin, the choir was divided into four groups. Placed in separate locations in the church balcony, the singers sang in French and imitated the sound of various types of birds. The other selections were the “Magnificat” by Herbert Howells, “Evening Prayer” by Ola Gjeilo, “O Lux Beata Trinitas” by Ko Matsushita and “Hentakan Jiwa” by Ken Steven. Sung in Malaysian, this last piece included dancing, clapping, stomping and complicated footwork — a stunning performance that brought the audience to its feet.