News from Beth Fitz
Gibbon, DM ’09 and Joann Farrell Quinn, PhD ’13,
Alumni Council
Co-Chairs
Congratulations to our 2019 DM and PhD graduates! You are
joining a proud and accomplished group of nearly 300 alumni and we hope you
will share your voice with us. If you would like to be elected to the Council,
or represent your cohort’s interests as their Class Representative, please let
us know.
Degree Name
Pursuit of the DM name change continues; the majority of DM
faculty and alumni voted in favor of the change to DBA. In a recent faculty meeting dicussions was held about changes that have occured in this pedagogical space since the DM Program began 25 years ago. The market has become more competitive. As Dean Manoj
Malhotra noted in his email to our alumni on May 2, 2019, “Faculty will work through the summer on these issues, and
present a comprehensive sett of recommendations to me in the fall. Any changes to the degree programs, including the name change, will thereafter go through various committees at the school and the university level. We hope to make substantial progress of these approvals by the end of this calendar year."
25th Anniversary in 2020…A Celebration of You!
CWRU’s Weatherhead DM/PhD program will commemorate 25 years
of producing the finest practitioner-scholars in the world next Spring. Your
Alumni Council, the faculty and the administration want to make this our best
attended, best received reunion ever. To that end, we need you to share your
ideas for a celebration you don’t want to miss. We need your help. No matter how near or far you are from Ohio,
there are many ways you can participate in designing the 2020 Celebration: lead
or be on a panel, recommend a best-in-class keynote speaker, plan the dine-arounds,
etc. Please contact Beth, Joann, Sue or Marilyn to let us know you’re
interested in contributing (contact info below).
Respond to the July 2019 Alumni Survey
Next month, you’ll receive a brief Qualtrics survey via
email. The Alumni Council needs your input to work on your behalf to ensure
your DM or PhD degree is one of your most valuable and treasured professional
assets.
Be Your Cohort’s Class Representative
To enable greater participation in planning and
communications, we are forming a team of Class Representatives – one person
from each cohort who will gather professional and personal news from their
class to share with all alumni via this quarterly newsletter. It’s an easy way
to stay in touch with people who were a significant part of your life for three
or more years, and to be in contact with other alums. If you would like to be
nominated, or nominate another member of your class, please let us know.
Your Alumni Council
Your Council works to sustain a return-on-investment for
your degree. 2019 and 2020 can be the
year all alumni come together to benefit from, participate in and support
alumni activities. To do that, we need your voice. How can we make your
investment in your degree more beneficial and valuable? Council members are
responsible for staying current with alumni concerns. Council participation requires one
conference-call meeting per quarter, with occasional in-between calls for
planning events such as Reunions. Council members are nominated and voted for
in periodic elections.
YOU’VE EARNED YOUR ALUM VOICE – USE IT!
There are many ways to participate without a big time
commitment on your part:
- Volunteer to be your cohort’s Representative
- Share requests and recommendations for anniversary speakers, topics of interest and social gatherings.
- Suggest a theme for the 2020 Anniversary Celebration
- Volunteer to help plan the celebration
- Recommend topics for keynote speakers
- Recommend key note speakers for the celebration
- Suggest panel topics
- Be a panel facilitator or member
- Suggest Cleveland-based cultural events
If you would like to volunteer to be your cohort’s
Representative, or if you have requests and recommendations for anniversary
speakers, topics of interest and social gatherings, please send them to Beth
Fitz Gibbon, DM ’09 (pathfox820@gmail.com) or to Joann
Farrell Quinn, PhD ‘13 (jfquinn@jfqconsulting.com),
or send suggestions directly to Sue at san2@case.edu or Marilyn at mac29@case.edu.
