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UW MBA Consortium Updates Admissions Requirements; GMAT/GRE now Optional

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – Applicants to the highly-rated University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium Program will no longer be required to submit GMAT or GRE scores as part of their application; instead, the scores will be an optional piece of information students can include to strengthen their application. This change to the Program’s application requirements is...

Healthcare Management Pathways – Coming in Fall 2023

Dr. Yael Zack is passionate about working with cancer patients as a medical oncologist at a hospital in New York, but she knows that someday she may want to be in a leadership role in addition to providing patient care. So, this fall, Zack enrolled in the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium to gain...

2022 Annual Faculty Meeting

Over 40 faculty and administrative staff from across all the UW MBA Consortium partner campuses gathered for the 6th Annual UW MBA Consortium Faculty Meeting, on Thursday and Friday, January 13-14, 2022. Historically, the faculty and staff have gathered in Wisconsin Dells as a central meeting location, but for the past two years we have...

2021 Annual Faculty Meeting

Nearly 40 faculty and administrative staff from across all the UW MBA Consortium partner campuses gathered for the 5th Annual UW MBA Consortium Faculty Meeting, on Thursday and Friday, January 14–15, 2021. Usually, faculty and staff gather in Wisconsin Dells as a central meeting location, but this year, because of the pandemic, we met virtually...

2020 UW MBA Consortium Faculty Meeting

Nearly 40 faculty and administrative staff from across all the Consortium partner campuses gathered for the 4th Annual UW MBA Consortium Faculty Meeting, January 16-17, 2020, at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells. Each year, attendees come together to participate in strategic planning activities as well as professional development. During this year’s...

UW MBA Consortium Director to Retire

After serving the UW MBA Consortium for nearly 25 years as the program’s director and advisor, Dr. Robert Erffmeyer will retire at the end of February. Erffmeyer was a founding member of the MBA Consortium, which began by offering classes using interactive TV before shifting to a web-based platform. Dr. Al Hartman, former dean at...

2019 UW MBA Consortium Faculty Meeting

Forty faculty and administrative staff from across all the Consortium partner campuses gathered for the 3rd Annual UW MBA Consortium Faculty Meeting on January 17-18, 2019 at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells. Each year, attendees come together to participate in strategic planning activities as well as professional development. During this year’s...

MBA program hits milestone with 500th graduate

When UW-Eau Claire honors its newest graduates this month it also will be celebrating an achievement for one of its premier programs – the 500th student will graduate from the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium. “It’s definitely a milestone for our MBA program,” says Dr. Robert Erffmeyer, a UW-Eau Claire professor of management and...

Consortium Faculty Attend AACSB Conference

Three faculty from the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium had the opportunity to attend AACSB’s Redesigning the MBA Curriculum Conference, May 9-11, 2018, in Salt Lake City, UT. According to the conference website, “…this conference is designed to aid business schools to think strategically about questions of purpose, positioning, and program design, as well as offer...

Dr. J. Ben Arbaugh Passes Away

Dr. J. Ben Arbaugh, long-time professor with the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium, passed away Saturday, June 16, after a long fight with esophageal cancer. Dr. Arbaugh served as a strategy and project management professor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh until his retirement on June 3. Dr. Arbaugh began teaching with the UW MBA Consortium...