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Business and Leadership: Letter from the Dean

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Letter from the Dean

Dear Friends,

As we mark 30 years of business education at Lourdes University and celebrate the creation of the new College of Business and Leadership, we remain steadfast in our commitment to serving as a point of connection for those who are seeking a new generation of business and nonprofit leader:

One who understands that ethics and integrity are critical to business and carries them into the marketplace with courage and conviction.
One who cares about the world with passion and serves the greater needs of society with commitment.
One who never stops growing and commits to lifelong development of mind, heart and soul.
One who appreciates the complexity of today’s business environment and understands that success demands not only deep knowledge, but broad perspective, insightful creativity, and sound judgment.

We hire faculty who believe this. We attract partners in the business and nonprofit communities who support this. We recruit students who want this. It is the essence of our Franciscan heritage and the core of our academic community.

During the past 30 years we have been a point of connection for over 1500 students receiving their degrees and moving into careers in the business and nonprofit sectors. In recent years we have enjoyed remarkable growth. Currently, roughly 500 students are enrolled in our undergraduate, M.B.A., and M.O.L. degree programs. Through career services, internships, immersion experiences and mentoring, we connect students to their futures.

We are impressed by the hard work, determination, and commitment we see in the current generation of students —a generation that expects more from themselves, from life, from business, and from the world. Students like it here at Lourdes. They appreciate the values-based atmosphere, and they enjoy the caring environment provided by faculty, staff, and administration. They find Lourdes to be a place of peace—a place where they can connect to a transformative model of business. As the world moves into an increasingly complex future, we will continue to be a point of connection for this new generation of business leaders—innovative leaders prepared to take our world from where it is...to where it needs to be.

Dean C. Ludwig, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor
College of Business & Leadership
Lourdes University