Dallas,
Tx, USA August 22, 2006
The University of Dallas Graduate School
of Management and Dayananda Sagar Institutions
of Bangalore, India today signed a Memorandum of Understanding
to offer first year MBA courses in India with second year
courses being taken on the UD campus. The University of
Dallas will confer the MBA degree to students participating
in this program.
Dr. D. Hemachandra Sagar, Chairman,
Dayananda Sagar Institutions (DSI), said at the signing
that DSI started in 1960 is now developed into a Ph.D.
granting institution. Dr. Frank Lazarus,
President of the University of Dallas, noted at the
signing that the University graduated its first class
in 1960, seeing a kinship between the two centers of
learning.
Dr. Sagar also spoke of DSI’s
goal to make “global citizens”
of its students. With the advent of information technology,
he said that education in India has been transformed.
“The major need in business,” Dr. Sagar
says, “is to understand people and other cultures.”
Both Dr. Lazarus and Dr. J. Lee Whittington,
Dean of the College of Business, commented on the Graduate
School of Management’s emphasis on and dedication
to relevance, rigor, convenience, and choice in its
curriculum and course offerings. Those qualities and
features of a UD Graduate School of Management education
and degree will coordinate well with the goals of Dayananda
Sagar Institutions. Dr. Whittington
called this day both a “culmination and
a commencement” of the initiative to
establish this agreement. “This partnership now
gives a whole new meaning to global education,”
said Sri Beldona, Assistant Professor and Academic Director,
Global Business Program. “When you look at our
current students and the corporations from where they
come, the same corporations are now well established
in Bangalore.” Dr. Stan Kroder,
Associate Dean for the College of Business Online Learning,
added, “It is the goal of this new partnership
to offer the same quality education in Bangalore that
Multinational Corporations have come to expect of us
here in Dallas.”
The University of Dallas has been
recognized by the US News and World Report as one of
the top liberal arts universities in the nation. UD’s
Graduate School of Management is the largest MBA-granting
University in the Southwest. The MBA program focuses
on a pragmatic and principled approach to business management.
The University of Dallas has its main campus in Irving,
Texas (1845 E. Northgate Drive), and the Constantin
Campus in Due Santi, Italy – as well as three
satellite campuses in Fort Worth, and Plano, Texas.
For more information about the University of Dallas
and the Graduate School of Management, go to
www.udallas.edu.
Dr Sri Beldona and Dr Stan
Kroder Professors in the School of Management
at the University of Dallas will be in the DSI campus
on September 26th to give out more details of the twinning
program.
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For more information call R Janardhan
98440 74091. Email: janardhan@sagarapollo.com
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