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Pamplin undergraduates now have the opportunity to enroll in summer school courses at Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia Center in the Washington, D.C., metro area. This new initiative is starting out with two courses — Management Theory & Leadership Practice and Business Policy and Strategy — to be taught by management professor Michael Badawy.
Badawy, who will be teaching these courses during the first summer session, was among 15 Virginia Tech faculty members who received grants last fall from the Provost’s Office as an incentive to teach courses in the 2008 summer sessions at the Blacksburg and Northern Virginia campuses.
Badawy, who exclusively teaches MBA students at the Northern Virginia Center, said that undergraduate courses are being introduced during the summer months at the center, which has previously offered only graduate programs, to gauge interest and accommodate undergraduate students who are planning to spend the summer with their families in the Washington area and are interested in taking summer courses.
The other two Pamplin faculty members who received the grants are hospitality and tourism management faculty member Pierre Couture, who will lead a study-abroad program, Event and Information Technology Management on the French Riviera (together with accounting and information systems professor France Belanger), and business information technology professor Robin Russell, who will be teaching Operations Management as an online course. Couture and Russell are based in Blacksburg.
Established in fall 2006, the summer sessions grant program aims to promote summer session as an integral component of a student’s learning, discovery, and engagement experience. The university summer session advisory committee received more than 50 applications for the 2008 summer sessions. The grants awarded totaled $75,000.