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The country's first student-led program that connects philanthropic donors with deserving nonprofit organizations is up and running at BYU.
While a 234-mile trip may not be your average commute, students are increasingly willing to traverse state lines to earn a Marriott School graduate degree.
Six MPA students were featured in The Salt Lake Tribune for conducting an economic development study for Eagle Mountain.
BYU's Romney Institute will host its first-ever local government fair Thursday, 7 January, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will attract local government leaders from across Utah.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
For a handful of Marriott School students, a trip to Ghana exposed them to another corner of the world that needed their services.
More than twenty BYU MBA and MPA students worked this spring to improve small businesses around the world.
Mergers and acquisitions can be lucrative, as a team of BYU MBA students learned at the Smith MBA Competition in Maryland.
Investing guru Warren Buffett offers BYU students free lunch and advice
A new program at Brigham Young University is giving graduate students the chance to become board members of nonprofits in Utah Valley.
While many Marriott School students take classes to learn research strategies, MPA student Jean Kapenda brings to graduate classes years of tried and tested real-world research from his extensive genealogy work.
The planned addition to the N. Eldon Tanner Building is officially underway after ground was broken on the campus of Brigham Young University April 25.
Students presented their solution to a panel of city managers in an event that pitted them against other Utah schools.
Eighteen students from BYU’s Romney Institute of Public Management traveled to Ghana for a two-week educational field study and a chance to share their business knowledge with 12 local nonprofit organizations.
CEO of Dell, Massachusetts’ Governor among authors
Master of Public Administration Program Celebrates 40 Years
The Marriott School’s MPA program gets another stamp of approval after completing its reaccreditation process last year. Of the national MPA programs eligible for participation in peer review, only 54 percent have been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Those numbers are growing, however, because schools recognize the benefits.
Property Solutions LLC took first place at the 2003 Marriott School Business Plan Competition. The company provides an integrated software solution for property management companies. My Carnivore, a company that sells carnivorous pet plants, took second place. Tying for third place were Dierevo, a company developing technology to create renewable energy solutions, and StrollerWorks, a company which offers a new reversible jogging stroller.
Brigham Young University's Marriott School has launched a major initiative to improve minority representation in the school's graduate programs. The diversity initiative is designed to recruit a more diverse student body and faculty; provide students and faculty with cultural awareness and sensitivity to diversity issues; and improve the school's internal climate to be more supportive of female, international, and minority students and faculty.
The Strategic Management Society awarded four Brigham Young University Professors the best paper prize last week at the organization’s 22nd annual conference in Paris, France.
The Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University named William H. Hansell, executive director of the International City/County Management Association, as its 2002 Administrator of the Year. Hansell has been executive director of ICMA since October 1983.
Despite being one teammate short, arriving at the competition with only five minutes to spare and having to begin planning their case in a car by flashlight, a team of three students from BYU’s Marriott School recently placed second at an international business ethics competition.
Master of Public Administration (MPA) students at BYU’s Marriott School have more combined gender, cultural and ethnic diversity than ever before. About one of every five students admitted to the class of 2002 is an ethnic minority. Approximately one-third of the students are female. And, 21 percent are international students.