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 October 2001 RICKETTS CENTER
POWERS 10-WEEK E-BUSINESS EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE OMAHA, Neb. -- Condensed, high powered e-business education with emphasis on solutions and leadership is now offered in a new 10-week, 30-hour executive certificate program by the Joe Ricketts Center in Electronic Commerce and Database Marketing in the College of Business Administration at Creighton University. The program, which starts in January, targets executives who need cutting-edge, e-business knowledge to navigate through the rapidly changing world of business. The curriculum offers concentrated training in convergence of technologies, business-to-business commerce, marketing, security, data mining, regulatory and privacy issues in the digital economy, and web applications. The 10, three-hour seminars will be taught by a team of experts in the e-business field including Ravi Nath, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Information Systems and Technology and founding director of the Joe Ricketts Center for Electronic Commerce and Database Marketing, and holder of the Jack and Joan McGraw Endowed Chair in Information Systems in the College of Business Administration at Creighton University. For more information on the certificate program you can contact Dr. Nath at rnath@creighton.edu or (402) 280-2439. Creighton University is an independent, Catholic, comprehensive university operated by the Jesuits, who have a 500-year tradition of excellence in education. Creighton has been ranked at or near the top of Midwestern universities in the U.S. News & World Report magazine’s “America’s Best Colleges” edition for more than a decade. Creighton enrolls more than 6,200 students of diverse faiths and races from across the United States and 65 countries. The student body is taught by 700 full-time faculty members in the Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, the Graduate School, University College, and schools of Dentistry, Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Summer Sessions. The University is located in Omaha, Nebraska (pop. 800,000 metro area) on a 92-acre campus adjacent to the downtown business district. September 2001 CREIGHTON TO INAUGURATE THE ANNA TYLER WAITE CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP OMAHA, Neb. -- The College of Business Administration (CoBA) at Creighton University is leading by example. CoBA is inaugurating the Anna Tyler Waite Center for Leadership at 4 p.m., Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 4 p.m. in the Skutt Student Center. The Anna Tyler Waite Center for Leadership offers a four-year program that will offer undergraduate students in CoBA the opportunity to study and practice leadership in a college setting. The Anna Tyler Waite Scholars will participate in a series of activities that will explore the philosophies and actions of leaders in varied settings and circumstances. These activities will develop the skills and values needed to become an effective leader in a socially responsible environment. BOYLE AND
RICE ARE HONORED AS ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS OMAHA, Neb. -- Michael Philip Boyle and Kenneth D. Rice are Creighton alumni who have transformed their academic education into business and personal success. For 15 years, Boyle has been on the move at Microsoft. In May 2000, he was named vice president after directing Microsoft's worldwide tax and internal audit functions for several years. His service to his profession includes chairing the Tax and Finance Committee of the American Electronics Association as well as serving on the board of the National Foreign Trade Council. His service to his alma mater is just as impressive. This 1979 graduate from the College of Business Administration at Creighton and 1983 graduate from the Creighton School of Law is on the Advisory Board of the College of Business Administration as well as an active member of the Creighton Alumni Club in Seattle. For all of his involvement and interest in Creighton, Boyle is the 2001 Alumni Merit Award winner from the College of Business Administration. Rice, chairman and CEO of Enron Broadband Services, oversees the development of Enron's emerging communications business, which includes an 18,000-mile nationwide fiber optic network dedicated to high bandwidth. This 1984 Master of Business Administration graduate from the College of Business Administration has given his energy and time to Creighton as well, after presiding as past president of the Creighton Alumni Club in Houston. A reception and dinner was held for both honorees, on Monday, Sept. 10, 2001 in the Skutt Student Center on the Creighton University campus. May 2001 Educator of the Year Ravi Nath, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Information Systems and Technology, and director of the Joe Ricketts Center for Electronic Commerce and Database Marketing in the College of Business Administration at Creighton University was named Educator of the Year: Postsecondary by the Applied Information Management (AIM) Institute. The honor was announced at AIM's 8th Annual Nebraska Technology Banquet on Tuesday, April 24, 2001. Dr. Nath is the third faculty member from the College of Business Administration to receive the award. January 2001 The Rev. Neil Cahill, S.J. died at Mercy Care Center on
January 13th after a long illness. Before retiring in June of 2000, Fr. Cahill had served
as Chaplain of the college and as an economics professor since 1962.
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