UPCEA honors MU’s innovative execMBA

UPCEA CEO Bob Hansen; Kathleen Dolan, director of the Trulaske execMBA program at MU; Lesley Nichols, executive director of professional studies at Emerson College and chair of the UPCEA Marketing, Enrollment and Student Services Network; and Inside Track SVP Chuck Kleiner.

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MU’s Trulaske College of Business execMBA program has received a national distinction for helping students succeed.

The UPCEA Excellence in Advancing Student Success Award recognizes institutions and programs that support adult and/or nontraditional students via strategic initiatives, projects or services.

UPCEA CEO Bob Hansen; Kathleen Dolan, director of the Trulaske execMBA program at MU; Lesley Nichols, executive director of professional studies at Emerson College and chair of the UPCEA Marketing, Enrollment and Student Services Network; and Inside Track SVP Chuck Kleiner.

Kathleen Dolan, director of the Trulaske execMBA program, accepted the award April 8 at UPCEA’s 101st Annual Conference in San Diego.

The award was sponsored by InsideTrack, a provider of student coaching services.

The Trulaske execMBA was specifically designed for working professionals. “We built this program on the basic insight that people who are interested in advancing themselves want to be surrounded by others who also have a similar drive, energy and intellect,” Dolan said.

The effect on graduates is profound: Of the inaugural graduating class, nearly half the students ended the 21-month program with either a promotion or a new position.

In honoring the Trulaske execMBA, UPCEA highlighted the program’s practice of collecting student feedback in near real-time via an impartial outside vendor. This measurement model melds MBA pedagogy with technology, the better to serve busy executives.

Course work in the program is 75 percent online and 25 percent on-campus, giving students the optimal balance of online convenience, career benefits of face-to-face instruction, and cohort networking.

The hybrid model has drawn national attention. Bloomberg Businessweek highlighted the Trulaske execMBA in its 2013 Best Part-Time MBA and Best Executive MBA report. Poets & Quants named it one of the best online MBA programs in the U.S.

The Trulaske execMBA program is now accepting applications for the next cohort, which begins classes in August. GRE scores are not required.

Learn more about the Trulaske execMBA or apply to the program.

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