Lehman Faculty, a Metropolis College of New York senior school situated within the Bronx, is remodeling its Economics and Enterprise division into a brand new College of Enterprise with its personal accounting division, efficient July 1.
The brand new College of Enterprise will signify the only real enterprise college at any public school within the Bronx or Westchester County. CUNY’s Board of Trustees authorised the transfer at a public assembly final December.
“The brand new college, whose area of interest will embody entrepreneurship, small enterprise improvement, and experiential studying, builds on Lehman’s already sturdy repute inside the enterprise group and can function a serious pipeline for getting ready various expertise from underrepresented populations for native, regional, nationwide and worldwide workforce wants,” stated Peter Nwosu, Lehman Faculty provost and senior vice chairman for tutorial affairs and pupil success, in an announcement. “Establishing a College of Enterprise indicators to college students, potential college students and employers that we’re dedicated to producing expert graduates who’ve real-world expertise, a worldwide perspective and a capability for inventive problem-solving in an trade that continues to evolve.”
The brand new enterprise college will launch with three new departments: Accounting; Administration and Enterprise Innovation; and Economics, Finance and Data Methods. Moreover, 5 totally different levels can be supplied: enterprise bachelor of arts, bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, grasp of science in enterprise, and grasp of science in accounting.
Lehman’s Division of Economics and Enterprise at the moment has a complete of 1,802 declared majors, each graduate and undergrad, amongst a pupil physique of greater than 14,000 college students, per fall 2020 enrollment numbers.
Seven concentrations can be out there in accounting, finance, advertising, human useful resource administration, enterprise regulation, worldwide enterprise and enterprise economics. Twenty-three full-time school can be transferred from the College of Pure and Social Science to show on the new college.
“Establishing a College of Enterprise at Lehman Faculty fulfills an essential goal of our strategic plan and brings to the school many advantages, together with broad management in metropolis, state, federal and worldwide initiatives,” stated Lehman Faculty president Fernando Delgado in an announcement. “The Bronx and our college students are the most important benefactors of this endeavor since lots of our college students are from right here and plenty of of them keep within the metropolis after commencement.”