Sponsor
In March 2010, the Robert H. Smith School of Business received $1.5 million from
the BB&T Foundation to support to business ethics and leadership programs. Awarded
over a 10-year period, the gift funds new curriculum and the BB&T Colloquium on
Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership lecture series at the Smith School’s new Center
for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC).
“We are grateful for BB&T’s ongoing generous support and we’re excited to continue
our strong partnership,” said G. “Anand” Anandalingam, dean of the Robert H. Smith
School of Business. “Since the unraveling of the nation’s financial system, we’ve
really come to recognize the need for better leadership education for current and
future business leaders. This generation needs to understand the origins of our
capitalist system from a historical and moral context in order to make good decisions
that take all stakeholders into account.”
The BB&T gift is instrumental in supporting Center for Leadership, Innovation
and Change activities, with a mission to advance individual, team and organizational
effectiveness. The center focuses on fostering synergies among research, education
and practice to generate new knowledge about leadership, innovation and effective
change in organizations. To meet these goals, the BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism,
Ethics and Leadership brings together students, faculty, staff, alumni and the public
for a spring lecture series. The center also uses the BB&T gift to create undergraduate,
MBA and executive education curriculum that focuses on the logic and morality of
capitalism.
BB&T has been a strong supporter of the Smith School for nearly 15 years, investing
in student scholarships, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, and academic program
initiatives such a the Undergraduate Fellows Program.
Organizations looking for an opportunity to share an affiliation with a dynamic
educational institution need look no farther than the Center for Leadership, Innovation
and Change (CLIC) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
For more information on sponsorship activities with CLIC,
contact Pat Stocker,
executive director.