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Students enjoy the warm spring weather.
The Center for Integrative Leadership aims to understand how collective action across sectors and geography can solve the world's societal problems.

Rebel with a cause
(4/18/2008) UMD alum Jim Swenson became a success with his company, Details, Inc. Today he focuses his entrepreneurial energy on enriching his alma mater with scholarships, and most recently, a new civil engineering building.

Conscious collaborator
(3/18/2008) Some rock bands, like Black Eyed Peas, are known for espousing green causes. Others, for gas-guzzling tour buses and over-the-top consumerism. University of Minnesota student Erick Boustead is helping rock bands keep their shows as green as their words.

Helping business is U business
(12/5/2007) As the front door to the University, the Academic and Corporate Relations Center assisted hundreds of businesses last year with relationship managers acting as their corporate concierge, and provided free services valued at more than $3.5 million for businesses, which included sponsoring workshops, seminars, and conferences.

At the front lines of interdisciplinary inquiry
(11/9/2007) The U's Network of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, which will meet Nov. 19, is a sign of a sea change in higher education in which the University of Minnesota is leading the way.

Improving on time
(10/30/2007) When all the clocks in the country "fall back" an hour Nov. 4 as daylight saving time ends, the clocks in 300 UMTC central classrooms will be reset by the invisible hand of a new remote system.

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Monthly Highlights

Medical Industry Leadership Institute Seminar
This seminar explores the differences between non-profit and for-profit organizations in the medical industry.
April 3, 3 p.m., Carlson School of Management

Applied Economics Seminar Series
Papers presented this spring will discuss the environment, education, and subprime investors.
Fridays, Spring 2008, 3-4:30 p.m., Room 119, Classroom Office Building

Trade and Development Seminar Series
This series of lectures features presentations on Chinese groundwater management and "Vulnerability in Ecuador."
Fridays, Spring 2008, 10 a.m., Room 119, Classroom Office Building

Inside the Boardroom
Jill Lajdziak, Saturn general manager, will speak on her automotive retail experience.
May 2, 5:30 p.m., Carlson School of Management

Man walking in front of Carlson School of Business.
The Carlson MBA program uses these teaching methods:

25% Case Study
25% Experiential Learning
25% Lecture
10% Team Projects
5% Simulations
5% Distance Learning


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