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Kwantlen business student Suzanne ten Haaf carried the Olympic torch February 9 - click here for pictures and more...
5th Annual School of Business Scholarships & Awards Ceremony - coming Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Click here for details
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March 27, 2009 - Kwantlen business students recognized at annual scholarship and awards ceremony
Kwantlen Polytechnic University School of Business hosted its annual Scholarship and Awards ceremony at the Coast Hotel & Convention Centre in Langley.
The ceremony presented over $135,000 in awards, bursaries and scholarships to Kwantlen business students who had demonstrated superior academic achievement, financial need and/or community involvement in a business program.
The top award recipients were as follows:
Angela McKinnon, Maaz Ghani, Brandon Hastings, John Chan, Sarah Davies, Kunal Sharma and Christine Bardell. For pictures and details click here.
For more information on how to establish a scholarship, to contribute to an existing scholarship fund, or to learn about other ways to support Kwantlen, visit kwantlen.ca/foundation
As the second largest business school in Western Canada, Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s School of Business is internationally accredited and offers degrees in entrepreneurial leadership, accounting, information technology and human resources management.
February 11, 2009 - Kwantlen Polytechnic University Team Finalist in International Competition
Kwantlen Polytechnic University business students were the only finalists from a BC university in the International CaseIT Competition at SFU this past Saturday, February 7, 2009.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s School of Business team of Brandon Hastings and Derek Smith, who are in the BBA Entrepreneurial Leadership, and David Fairholm, who is in the BBA Accounting, finished third in a very strong field of 16 teams from four continents. “CaseIT is an annual international undergraduate business case competition with a strong MIS focus designed to find the best and brightest in strategic IT case analysis. It is a forum where students from various backgrounds of IT and business can showcase their skills in areas such as teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking to a panel of industry professionals.”
The National University of Singapore team finished first. Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s team was beaten out for second place in the 2009 competition by the team from Ryerson University.
The International CaseIT Competition had teams from four continents: Carnegie Mellon and the University of Iowa represented the USA; Pforzeim University, Germany, Maastricht University, The Netherlands and Universita Bocconi, Italy represented Europe; National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University and Hong Kong Baptist University represented Asia; Rhodes University, University of Capetown and University of Pretoria represented Africa; Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Ryerson University, Simon Fraser University, University of Calgary and University of Manitoba represented Canada.
The faculty coach for the team, Robert Wood, was very pleased with the team’s achievement and acknowledged the contributions of Brett Palmer a BBA Human Resource Management student who had been a full participant of the team during the run-up to the competition. Brett was a late cut from the team at the deadline when the final three members allowed for the team were named. Bob Crockett and Vasile Zamfirescu, both BBA faculty members assisted in the training cases and high level feedback that was part of the teams’ preparation.
IT Casegroup LR Derek Smith, Brandon Hastings, David Atkinson, Robert Wood, David Fairholm, Brett Palmer
IT Casegroup LR Derek Smith, David Fairholm, Brett Palmer, Brandon Hastings
Kwantlen School Of Business Awarded CMA Accounting Accreditation
Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s School of Business has received accreditation renewal for a five-year period by Certified Management Accountants of Canada (CMA) for its Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting program. For more details, click here.
Kwantlen School Of Business Awarded ACBSP Accreditation
Kansas City, Missouri – for immediate release – The Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) announced that the School of Business at Kwantlen Polytechnic University was awarded initial accreditation by the ACBSP Baccalaureate/Graduate Degree Board of Commissioners. Kwantlen will be presented with their certificate of accreditation during the ACBSP Annual Conference in Orlando, FL on July 1, 2007. This will represent the seventeenth annual presentation to institutions being accredited since the founding of ACBSP nineteen years ago.
Douglas G. Viehland, Executive Director of the ACBSP, spoke of the accomplishment of this accreditation, "Kwantlen has shown their commitment to teaching excellence by participating in the accreditation process, achieving accreditation, and then continuing the process of quality improvement. This accreditation is evidence of Kwantlen’s commitment to quality business programs."
For institutions that achieve accreditation for their business schools and programs, this attainment certifies that the teaching and learning processes within that institution meet the rigorous educational standards established by the ACBSP. The accreditation criteria are based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and require demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement. The ratification of accreditation by ACBSP covers a ten-year period during which time Kwantlen must continually reaffirm its quality through periodic reports.
ACBSP’s mission is to establish, promote, and recognize educational practices that contribute to the continuous quality improvement of business education programs, teaching of business courses, and student learning outcomes in colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad. ACBSP was established in 1988 and is the only business accrediting organization for both two year and four year institutions. ACBSP has over 490 member institutions and is located in Overland Park, Kansas. ACBSP and the Association to Advance College Schools of Business, are the only two business school accrediting bodies recognized by the United States Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Kwantlen Polytechnic University joins the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University as one of British Columbia’s three accredited business schools.
Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resources Management
The Business Management department is pleased to announce that the BBA in Human Resources Management has been approved by the Degree Quality Assurance Board of the Ministry of Advanced Education. We started students in this new program in September, 2006. We are now accepting applications for this program.
This program will be an ideal pathway to employment in the human resources management field for students already holding a Bachelor's degree. More information on this program is available.
The degree content consists of the thirty-credit "core" HRM courses from the BBA in HRM. Students enter this program after completion of the Bachelor-level program. Students who do not have a business minor in their degree studies may be required to take qualifying courses for the Diploma.
Are you interested in either program? Contact the Admissions office of Kwantlen Polytechnic University. A full calendar description of the program is listed on Kwantlen's web site.
Please contact Doug Fletcher at doug.fletcher@kwantlen.cawith any feedback on our BBA HRM or questions about the program.
