Mission

The Whittemore School of Business and Economics develops students for successful careers and lifelong learning capabilities. We are committed to teaching excellence, quality scholarship, and effective outreach. The school provides a challenging and integrated educational environment that is externally engaged and firmly focused on creating technologically-proficient problem solvers, innovative and critical thinkers, effective communicators, and ethical business leaders.

In pursuing our mission, we dedicate ourselves to:

• Develop strong partnerships with business, government and not-for-profit communities to provide learning experiences for students and faculty and to establish the School as a research and educational resource for these communities.
• Foster and support a culture that values the strong commitment of faculty to the education of our students.
• Develop, evaluate, and revise curricula, courses, and programs to provide students with a current and relevant educational experience.
• Continue to build a strong research reputation, with an emphasis on applied research, through faculty publications in refereed journals, presentations at conferences, and academic contributions to professional organizations.
• Enhance the quality of education through engagement of students in faculty research projects and faculty-mentored student research initiatives.
• Facilitate, support, and develop areas of research expertise that are recognized on a national and international level.
• Encourage and support all forms of quality scholarship in recognition that a breadth of intellectual activities enhances the school's reputation and outreach, and supports the students' learning experience.
• Seek to attract, admit and retain students who exceed University standards.
• Support and advise graduate and undergraduate students in their selection of programs, electives, internships, careers, and placement decisions.