From the Dean: The Power of Resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for both our students and our faculty and staff, but we continued to respond to this historic crisis with urgency, reason, ingenuity and, most of all, resilience.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for both our students and our faculty and staff, but we continued to respond to this historic crisis with urgency, reason, ingenuity and, most of all, resilience.
For this year’s State of the School Homecoming talk, I highlighted our dramatic growth, the exceptional quality of our students and the innovative new programs we’ve introduced in the last several years, but the topic everyone in attendance was most interested in — and it wasn’t even close — was jobs.
The Stewart Center CBD — through both its location and programming — stands in sharp contrast to the stereotypical notion of a university detached from its community, but this shouldn’t be surprising: Tulane University has never been an ivory tower.
Prior to becoming dean here at the Freeman School, I was a professor of accountancy for several decades. I would like to share with you some of what I learned over those decades and explain why it is more relevant today than ever before.
A new era of business education at Tulane University has begun. In January, the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex — the new home of the A. B. Freeman School of Business — opened its doors to students.
Summer is typically a quiet time on Tulane’s campus, but here at the Freeman School, it’s been a different story.