School of Business

School of Business Administrative Team

The School of Business, accredited by the prestigious accrediting body AACSB International, offers undergraduate programs in Accounting, Business (Business Concentration), Economics, Finance, Management and Marketing. Certificate programs are available in two areas: Accounting, and International Studies, Foreign Language and Business. Minors are offered in Business, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Management and Marketing. The School of Business also administers the Healthcare Management minor and the Certificate in Risk Management.

Mission

We offer a business education integrated with the liberal arts and rooted in the Franciscan values of inclusivity and service. Our AACSB accredited undergraduate and graduate programs develop versatile and socially responsible citizens with the skills to compassionately lead, serve, and succeed.

Vision: Organizations seek our graduates because we develop the whole person, prepared for a successful career and a life of passion and purpose.

Our Students develop into responsible, inclusive, servant leaders and citizens who pursue and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to today’s challenging issues.

Our Faculty, Staff and Administrators are highly qualified, diverse, and committed to meaningful personal engagement with students. We strive for excellence in every interaction. We deliver a robust curriculum that provides students with the cutting-edge knowledge necessary to become responsible leaders in a global economy. Our faculty are actively engaged in scholarship and practical application in our disciplines.

Our Alumni value paying it forward by engaging with students, building on a legacy of caring, and ensuring future alumni success.

Employers view us as a critical source for talent that produces effective and empathetic employees with sound leadership, reasoning, critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.

In support of our mission and vision: The School of Business provides intellectually challenging educational programs in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing and Management. Students are exposed to teaching strategies and modes of evaluation designed to emphasize active learning, collaborative activities, and critical and creative intellectual inquiry.

Undergraduate Learning Competencies

The School of Business provides intellectually challenging educational programs in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Management and Marketing that empower our students to address the challenges of a dynamic global and diverse society. Each School of Business graduate will attain the following outcomes:

1. Decision Making: Students will make and implement sound decisions.

Students will be able to:

Use data acquisition and analytics for fact-based problem solving and decision making.
Integrate knowledge and critical thinking skills from across disciplines to address business problems.
Make decisions that reflect consideration of the interdependent global environment.
Develop and implement innovative solutions to problems.

2. Communication: Students will demonstrate effective communication skills across platforms and audiences.

Students will be able to:

Communicate well-supported, well-structured, and clear messages in written and oral formats.
Prepare and communicate complex information and data.

3. Teamwork and Leadership: Students will demonstrate effective leadership and team member skills.

Students will be able to:

Contribute as a team member and foster a constructive team environment of cooperation and inclusion.
Demonstrate effective leadership skills.

4. Social Responsibility: Students will recommend actions that consider the impact on all stakeholders, the external environment, and the natural world.

Students will be able to:

Analyze and consider environmental, social justice, professional guidelines, ethical and legal implications of potential decisions on all relevant stakeholders.
Based on the analysis, develop recommendations, state objections, and defend choices.

5. Personal Development: Students will have the foundation on which to build personal and career success.

Students will be able to:

Demonstrate essential career-building skills.
Create and initiate a plan to develop critical personal success skills.

6. Business Specialization: Students will address organizational challenges and opportunities by applying the in-depth perspective of a business specialization.

Teaching and learning are of paramount importance. The faculty should:

offer students the opportunity to be known as individuals;
use a wide variety of teaching and learning techniques and the diversity of skills necessary for critical and creative intellectual inquiry;
challenge students to work toward attaining their best performance levels;
utilize the curriculum to help students identify the ethical dimensions embedded in business decisions;
provide opportunities throughout the curriculum for students to enhance written and oral communications;
immerse students in a learning environment which blends current business theory and practice.

Student learning is enriched by faculty and student interaction with business, non-profit, and government enterprises through means such as international and domestic student internships, faculty externships, and business speaker series.

The School of Business is composed of a dedicated faculty of teachers who are accomplished classroom instructors, who provide a blend of theoretical and practical aspects of their discipline and who primarily engage in pedagogical and applied business activities and profession/community service on a regular basis.

School of Business faculty members believe teaching and scholarly activities are interrelated. Scholarly activity increases faculty effectiveness in the classroom by enabling faculty members to incorporate the latest business theories and practices in their teaching. In this light, the business faculty conducts research to enhance teaching, improve management practices, and contribute to the body of knowledge in various management disciplines.

Curriculum

Students in the School of Business take college core courses; Business Core courses; common business core courses; courses in a chosen major and electives for a total of 120 credit hours.

Liberal Arts and Science Requirements

Students pursuing a major in the School of Business must complete the college-wide core and other liberal arts and science electives. Particularly, a student obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree through the School of Business must have at least 60 liberal arts/science credits to complete their degree.

Entrepreneurship Minor: The minor in Entrepreneurship introduces students to the knowledge and skills that are necessary to create, identify, and effectively implement innovative ideas in the marketplace. Students will think creatively and critically as they identify opportunities and develop strategies to pursue them. For information on the Entrepreneurship minor requirements, please see the Entrepreneurship Minor section under Multidisciplinary Majors, Minors, Certificates, and Courses.

Education Certification: School of Business majors seeking initial teaching certification in Business and Marketing (all grades) should plan their program jointly with their advisor and the Education Department at Siena. To be admitted to this certification program, students must have an overall grade point average of 3.0, with a 3.0 grade point average in the major.

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