Ivey wins global alliance honour
Western’s Richard Ivey School of Business has been named the CEMS Global Alliance School of the Year for its CEMS Masters in Management (MIM) program.
CEMS is a global alliance of 28 academic, four social and 65 corporate partners. Founded in 1988, the MIM program has been ranked in the Top 3 pre-experience masters by the Financial Times for the past eight years. After developing a base of 16 European business schools, CEMS began a process of globalization in 2008.
The program requires students to attend two academic institutions within the global alliance during the year. The award is based on a compilation of all student evaluations of all 28 business schools in the alliance. Ivey joined CEMS in 2009 as the first North American program, and its exclusive Canadian academic partner, and launched the program in 2010.
“The CEMS Master in Management program provides us the rare opportunity to hear feedback from students who can actually compare one school to another from their own personal experience,” said Darren Meister, director of Ivey’s MSc program. “The students who attended our program were excited by what we are doing at Ivey and the results show. Our own graduates are employed at leading firms around the world.”
NEWS AND NOTES
- BRAMPTON – The Western Mustangs cheerleading team added to their unprecedented run, winning their 27th National Cheerleading Championship on Dec. 2 at the University and Open National Cheerleading Championships in Brampton. This is the fifth straight year Western has claimed the top spot.
- Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Victor Han was honoured recently with the 2012 Paediatric Academic Leadership Clinician Investigator Award from the Paediatric Chairs of Canada. Han, a clinician scientist in neonatal-perinatal medicine, is also Chair of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Director of the Children’s Health Research Institute of the Lawson Health Research Institute, and the Associate Dean (Research) at Schulich.
- Dr. Warren T. Blume, Western Neurology professor emeritus, has been awarded the American Epilepsy Society 2012 J. Kiffin Penry Excellence in Epilepsy Care Award. The award recognizes Blume for his contributions as an early founder and organizer of specialized treatment and professional education programs in Canada.
- Western faculty and staff have an extra week to submit their feedback through the WE SPEAK survey. Originally scheduled to close on Friday, Dec. 7, the deadline has been extended through Friday, Dec. 14. More than 40 per cent of staff and nearly 20 per cent of faculty have completed the 20-minute survey. By completing the survey, faculty and staff can help identify ways to ensure work at Western is meaningful and also contribute to the renewal of the strategic plan.
To ensure confidentiality of your responses, the survey is being conducted by an external company, Metrics@Work. Individuals who have not completed the survey will have received an email from Metrics@Work with their unique password and login information. Contact the Western Human Resources Communication Centre (hrhelp@uwo.ca) or phone 519-661-2194 if you have any questions about the survey or if you need assistance to make the survey accessible to you. - Ontario University Athletics (OUA) announced its 2013 football schedule today, detailing the path the Western Mustangs need to take as they attempt to win their 30th Yates Cup championship and seventh Vanier Cup.
The Mustangs season gets started on Aug. 25 as the team takes to the road for a matchup with the Toronto Varsity Blues before returning home for a Labour Day showdown with the Carleton Ravens. The Ravens return to OUA football in 2013 and will be kicking off their first season in 15 years.
Other highlights of the team’s 2013 schedule include a rematch of this year’s OUA semi-final on Sept. 7 when the Mustangs face McMaster at Hamilton’s Ron Joyce Stadium in what’s sure to be a marquee matchup. Western then plays host to the Ottawa Gee-Gees in Week Four before heading on the road on Sept. 21 for a contest with the Laurier Golden Hawks.
On Sept. 28, Homecoming features another chapter in one of the most exciting rivalries in Canadian university sport as the Queen’s Gaels head to TD Waterhouse Stadium. The Gaels have won the past two matchups with the Mustangs and Western will be looking to reverse this trend when they play Queen’s on home turf for the first time since 2010.
The team then wraps up the regular season with a trip to Windsor to play the Lancers and a home game against York when former Mustang Michael Faulds returns as the Lions’ offensive coordinator.
Western’s schedule is as follows: Week 1 (Aug. 25), Western @ Toronto; Week 2 (Sept. 2, Labour Day), Carleton @ Western; Week 3 (Sept. 7), Western @ McMaster; Week 4 (Sept. 14), Ottawa @ Western; Week 5 (Sept. 21), Western @ Laurier; Week 6 (Sept. 28), Queen’s @ Western ; Week 7 (Oct. 5), Western @ Windsor; Week 8 (Oct. 10), Bye; and Week 9 (Oct. 19), York @ Western.