IAJBS Deans Meeting 2004 ESTE, San Sebastian, 14 July 2004

MAIN STRATEGIC CHALLENGES Group 1

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• Increased competition for the best students, and at the same time increasing social, ethnic and economic diversity • Increasing faculty scholarship (research) • Accreditation (related to faculty qualifications) • International exposure of faculty & students

• Globalisation: international programs, study tours abroad, student exchange programs • “Realistic learning” (more applied, real world learning) • Money • To increase research activity • Social service / service opportunities

• Internationalization process (programs, alliances, faculty) • Faculty attraction, also related to research productivity & relevance • Fund-raising (student scholarships & research) • Accreditation • Pedagogical challenge (changing student mindsets to face new global realities)

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Pricing (tuition fees, changes in Europe) Regulation (diminishing governmental funding: education becoming a private good) Competition Human resource mgmt (attraction, fairness in evaluation, ..) Learning community (preparation of the whole person)

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Internationalization (student & faculty exchange, joint programs) Differentiation through high quality education (new pedagogical models like Deusto model) Upgrade faculty qualifications and their external accreditation (better equipped for research) Strengthening the links with the corporate world and other academic networks

SHARED STRATEGIC CHALLENGES

Opportunities for collaboration between IAJBS members

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Globalization

• Research EASY to identify and implement

• Pedagogy • Faculty management • Quality / accreditation

DIFFICULT to identify and/or implement

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Money / Fund-raising

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Relationships with the corporate world

POSSIBLE COLLABORATIVE ACTIONS BETWEEN IAJBS MEMBERS Globalization

Research

Pedagogy

Faculty mgmt

Quality / Accreditation

Members:

Members:

Members:

Members:

Members:

Luiz Paulo Bignetti (Unisinos), Pedro Caldentey (Etea), Enrique Galarza (Católica Ecuador), Lee Dahringer (Loyola Maryland), Carlos Moslares (IQS), Mª Josefa Peralta (Icade), Susana Rodríguez (Deusto), Kart Soudam (U. Antwerp)

Leonor Ahuja Sánchez (ITESO) Jorge Rodríguez (Ibero Puebla) Ming-Hsien Yang (Fu-Jen) Roberto Horta (Católica Uruguay) John Whoolihan Xavier Mendoza (ESADE)

James Daley (Rockhurst U.) Thomas Fernandez Ming Hsten Yang Carlos Losada (ESADE) Jesús Tricás (IQS)

Leonor Ahuja (ITESO) Roberto Horta (Católica, Uruguay) Jorge Ridriguez (Ibero, Puebla) Carlos Losada (ESADE)

Georges Aoun (Iniv. St. Joseph, Lebanon) Dennry Yeh (Fu Jen, Taiwan) Jim Spillano s.j. (Sanata Dharma, Indonesia)

Champion: James M. Daley

Champion: John Whoolihan

Possible actions: • Short term staff exchanges (focusing especially on young faculty) • Using sabbaticals, especially from US schools (access to high quality faculty at low cost) • Student exchanges – consortium framework to recognise academic grades in short exchanges • IAJBS award for students (bringing students, local & international teams working in social projects) • Establishing a consortium scheme for long student exchange stays (like Erasmus program in Europe)

Possible actions: • Put on IAJBS website: current research projects and recent publications by faculty member; plus a link to each school. Build a search engine. • Bring faculty to int’l meetings to meet people with similar experience and interests • Establish an Electronic Forum for exchange of research ideas • Use the “colleagues” model for exchange • Clarifying classification of international journals • Comparative study on how faculty are incentivised to do research (bonus for tier 1 articles, standards for promotion)

Possible actions:

Possible actions:

• Interchange of information about which knowledge, competencies and values we want to foster in our programs • Sharing practices & resources to improve faculty’s teaching (i.e a seminar on learning assessment, adult pedagogy, …) • Promoting the scholarship of learning • Integrating the Ratio Studiorum approach into our curriculum. Principles from Spiritual Exercises: selfawareness, discernment, reflection & courage to act upon

• To use IAJBS webpage to inform about graduate & PhD programs offered. Upgrading faculty qualifications through programs offered by other IAJBS members. • To promote faculty exchanges • Sharing programs aimed at developing faculty skills (pedagogy, IT, …) • To do a survey between IAJBS members on their faculty mgmt practices

Possible actions: • Setting quality criteria in each institution

• Promoting candidacy to either AACSB or EQUIS accreditation

From: "Presidencia IAJBS" Subject: IAJBS Dean´s meeting Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:03:47 -0300 To: Estimados colegas: Adjuntamos el documento resumen del trabajo realizado en la reunión de Decanos, que tuviera lugar el pasado 14 de julio en la Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastián. Dicho resumen fue realizado por Xavier Mendoza al que le agradecemos su colaboración. Solicitamos, a quienes participaron en cada uno de los cinco temas estratégicos priorizados, que nos hagan llegar sugerencias e ideas para la implementación de las acciones definidas en cada tema. Atentamente. Roberto Horta Berro Presidente IAJBS International Association of Jesuit Business Schools Asociación Internacional de Facultades de Administración Jesuitas Dear colleagues: We attach the summary document of the work we made in the Dean´s meeting, which took place last July 14 in Deusto's University, San Sebastian. This summary was made by Xavier Mendoza whose collaboration we appreciate. We request, to whom participated in each of the five strategic prioritized topics, to send as suggestions and ideas for the implementation of the definitite actions in every topic. Best regards. Roberto Horta Berro President IAJBS International Association of Jesuit Business Schools Asociación Internacional de Facultades de Administración Jesuitas