State of the school

During his state of the school address Feb. 27, Robert Swieringa, dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, described how the school has made progress in attracting more minority and women students and has enhanced business and technology studies by filling a new chair in those areas that is sponsored jointly by the Johnson School and the Department of Computing and Information Science. Such initiatives strengthen the school's links to the rest of the university, said the dean, which helps it continue to attract the best business students. The school is unique in the range of immersion-learning programs it offers and in its focus on entrepreneurship, he said. In addition to its own programs and alumni support, the school links with the universitywide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise program. President Hunter Rawlings, who also spoke at the event, said: "There's an enormous amount of synergy between the Johnson School and the rest of Cornell, which is vital to both sides." Robert Barker/University Photography