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Valuing Differences

We continually look for ways to achieve ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, and other types of diversity among our students. Our goal is to provide a learning environment that enables our graduates to be effective in the kind of world in which they will live and work.

Wisconsin has long had a leading role in diversity efforts among business schools. We are one of three founders of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, the country’s first equal opportunity graduate fellowship program for under-represented minorities. Each year, our program benefits from the contributions of Consortium Fellows who choose the Wisconsin MBA.

Each fall, we offer a Diversity Event that brings prospective students from throughout the country to Madison to explore our program. In Fall 2009 the Wisconsin MBA will offer a Diversity Discussions Weekend.  This keynote event will bring together alumni, current students and prospective students to address why diversity in business is vital to its success.  This event will be held November 12-13, 2009. Register Today.

• Thursday, November 12
• Check-in: 6:00-6:30PM, 2nd floor Grainger Hall
• Evening Reception: 6:30-9:00PM, Study Pub, Fluno Center
• TAPS: 9:00-end, with current students
• Friday, November 13

• Registration/Breakfast: 8:00-9:00
  • Executive Dining Room, 1st Floor Grainger Hall.
• Welcome /Keynote: 9:00-10:30 - Christine Navia, PhD
  • Executive Dining Room, 1st Floor Grainger Hall.
• Tour of Grainger: 10:30-11:00
• Admissions Specialization Presentation: 11:00-12:00
  • Room 2520
• Lunch: 12:00-1:00
  • Room 2520
• CSW Global Presentation: 1:00-3:30
  • Plenary Room, 1st Floor, Grainger Hall
• Break: 3:30-3:45
• Center Forums: 3:45-4:30
  • 3rd and 4th Floor, Grainger Hall
• Student/Alumni Panel: 4:30-5:30
  • Room 2520
• Cocktails/Heavy Appetizers/Mingle: 5:30-7
  • Executive Dining Room, 1st Floor, Grainger Hall

The Wisconsin School of Business also is part of a prestigious consortium of major corporations and top business schools working to substantially increase the number of women business leaders. The Forté Foundation is a powerful change agent in educating and directing talented women toward leadership roles in business.

A variety of business student organizations help celebrate diversity:

• The Consortium Club
• Multicultural Business Student Association
• Graduate International Business Association
• Graduate Women in Business
• Out for Business