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SYRACUSE - Le Moyne College has ambitions to make its newly announced School of Business a major player on the national and international stage, the school's new dean says.
Le Moyne announced the launch of the new school Oct. 20. It houses the six majors formerly housed in the college's Division of Management, including accounting, applied management analysis, finance, management and leadership, marketing, and information systems.
The new school will also house Le Moyne's master's in business administration program.
Le Moyne has become increasingly complex in the past 10 years, says Wally Elmer, dean of the School of Business. That's made it harder to manage the college's two divisions - management, and arts and sciences, appropriately.
"We found ourselves getting larger and larger and more sophisticated," Elmer says. "The thought was the timing was right for this."
Elmer adds that discussions are under way on future structure for the Division of Arts and Sciences as well.
As for the...