Westminster College has announced the appointment of Gary Daynes, PhD, as interim dean of the college’s Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business. He will assume this role for the 2010 – 2011 academic year, beginning July 1, 2010.

The demand for business professionals to have a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) or a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) continues to grow.

By PR Newswire

SALT LAKE CITY, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last May, Western Governors University launched its Economic Turnaround Program, a scholarship program designed to help recently laid-off workers go back to school to complete a bachelor's or post-baccalaureate degree. In the year since the program's initiation, the non-profit university has awarded more than $565,000 in scholarships to more than 100 new WGU students, and the program is still going strong, with nearly $200,000 still available.

Adding to its menu of graduate business programs, Westminster College is pleased to introduce a new Project-based Master of Business Administration program to begin in the fall of 2010.

By PR Newswire

SALT LAKE CITY (May 6, 2010)-The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah today announced that its faculty has achieved high rankings among North American universities-including 12th in Accounting and 38th overall-for research published in major scholarly business publications in 2009, according to the University of Texas at Dallas Top 100 Rankings.

By Business Wire

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Two undergraduates from University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business who won the March 30 techTITANS Spring Idea Challenge now are talking with investors who may bankroll their business idea.

By World Trade Center Utah

Global Pathways, a new collaborative program between the University of Utah and Kaplan International Centers (KIC), a division of Kaplan, Inc. is one component of University of Utah President Michael Young’s internationalization effort to increase the number of international students studying at the U each year, while also allowing domestic students the opportunity to learn from multilingual students in the classroom.

Mark Bouchard, chair of the Salt Lake Chamber Education Committee and Senior Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis shared his thoughts on the future of education in Utah during a forum held by the Chamber and the Association of American Colleges & Universities. One of the Chamber’s top priorities this legislative session was to protect funding for public and higher education and Bouchard and other business leaders played a pivotal role in advancing this message on Capitol Hill.