Carey Business School
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The Carey Business School is one of the academic schools of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It places a heavy emphasis on business education aimed at professionals in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and offers several joint degrees with other Johns Hopkins schools, principally in the form of double masters programs.
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[edit] History
The origins of the school can be traced back to 1909, when the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education ("SPSBE") was created at Hopkins. Its objective was mainly to serve the educational needs of working professionals, allowing them to complete degrees while maintaining careers. The school evolved from a teacher’s college within the Johns Hopkins University to one of eight major schools in the university. On January 1, 2007, the SPSBE separated into two new schools — the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.[1]
This split was engendered by philanthropist William P. Carey's announcement on December 5, 2006 of his donation of $50 million to Johns Hopkins through his own W.P. Carey Foundation. The gift is the largest to Hopkins in support of business education to date, leading the school to be named after William Carey's great-great-great-grandfather, James Carey. James was an 18th- and 19th-century Baltimore shipper, chairman of the Bank of Maryland, a member of Baltimore's first City Council, and a relative of Johns Hopkins (he is not the Irish nationalist James Carey).
[edit] Initiatives
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School draws on the strengths of its formal degree partnerships with the other Johns Hopkins schools including Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, the School of Advanced International Studies, the Whiting School of Engineering, and the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Contrary to the norm at many graduate business institutions, these double degree seekers are considered a core educational constituency, and often have the option of taking classes specially catered to the hybrid space between their fields. This is in keeping with Carey’s philosophy of training more individuals for positions of business leadership that remain within their principal profession (e.g. as seen in recruiting literature for the school: “a better engineer, not a former engineer”), and hearkens back to the original spirit of the MBA (which has increasingly become a career switching, rather than enhancing, credential).
The Carey Business School currently is undergoing significant institutional development marked by the appointment of a new Dean, Yash Gupta, deputized with elevating the stature of the school. Yash Gupta has indicated that the Carey Business School will seek Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation and will aim to join the ranks of first tier institutions. Gupta has been elected to the board of directors of the AACSB. Gupta's three-year term on the governing body of the association began July 1, 2008. Notably, the Carey Business School intends to expand its offerings to both the Bachelor's and Doctoral levels in time, the former policy uncommon among leading business schools and the later considered key to bringing about a research culture that the school presently lacks.
[edit] Campus
The school has several campus locations on the Baltimore-Washington DC corridor, including:
- Downtown Baltimore Center, located on the southwest corner of Charles and Fayette streets in the heart of Baltimore's financial district
- Columbia Center in Maryland
- Montgomery County Campus
- Washington DC, next to the School of Advanced International Studies and Dupont Circle
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[edit] References
- ^ "Johns Hopkins Launches New Schools of Business, Education". Johns Hopkins University Office of News and Information. 2006. http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ06/dec06/schools.html. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
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