Mayor Issues Proclamation to Bloch School
Release Date: Oct 19, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In a ceremony at City Hall, Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser presented a proclamation to the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The proclamation was awarded in response to a recent ranking from the Princeton Review, and was received by Bloch School Dean Teng-Kee Tan. It will go down in history as a milestone for Kansas City.
The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Bloch School of Business and Public Administration was ranked last month by the Princeton Review among the top 25 graduate entrepreneurship programs nationally, putting UMKC and the Bloch school in the top tier of entrepreneurial colleges and business schools in the country, beating out 2,300 other schools including MIT, Harvard and Princeton.
The proclamation stated that Bloch’s entrepreneurship program was evaluated “based on key criteria in the areas of academic requirements, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom experiences,” along with “course offerings, success of students after graduation and sponsored mentorship programs.”
In addition, the proclamation noted “being included in the ranking solidifies the program’s place in an elite category of institutions offering a superlative level of education and preparedness that will play a key role in ensuring the success of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.”
"Kansas City is proud of the accomplishments of UMKC's Bloch School and the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation,” Mayor Mark Funkhouser notes. “As an alumnus of the Bloch School, I was pleased be able to honor them for this milestone."
The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IEI) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Bloch School of Business and Public Administration inspires and nurtures entrepreneurs and innovators through transformational education and research university-wide. IEI’s vision is to be a global leader in creating and disseminating knowledge to advance entrepreneurship and innovation. IEI supports the Bloch School’s strategic focus in entrepreneurship and innovation across all disciplines, providing entrepreneurship education at undergraduate, graduate, executive and doctoral levels.
The Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) is Kansas City’s only institution fully-accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). The Bloch School is home to nationally renowned faculty and research centers as well as innovative curricula in entrepreneurship, financial services, leadership, accounting and public administration.
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