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The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
RECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
What programs and initiatives has your school found successful in the recruitment of minority and/or female students?
To recruit minority and female undergraduates, the Texas MBA program is a participating sponsor in events held by the following diverse undergraduate
organizations:
Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA)
Black Business Student Association (BBSA)
Asian Business Students Association (ABSA)
Longhorn American Indian Council
McCombs Diversity Council (MDC)
National Black MBA Association Collegiate Chapter (NBMBAA)
In addition, the Texas MBA program participates in the graduate workshop series held by Academic Enrichment Services, a sponsored program by the
University of Texas Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.
The University of Texas hosts different recruiting events throughout the year. The largest minority-focused event is:
Explore McCombs Diversity Weekend
mba.mccombs.utexas.edu/diversity/explore.asp
Held annually in the fall, Explore McCombs is an opportunity for qualified applicants to learn more about the benefits of an MBA from the University
of Texas, the strengths of the McCombs program and how business school will ultimately affect their ability to become exceptional business leaders.
While Explore McCombs is open to everyone, African-American, Hispanic-American and Native American applicants are especially encouraged to
attend.
The Texas MBA program is an institutional partner with the following organizations:
The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management (CGSM)
www.cgsm.org
The McCombs School is a 23-year member of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management—a 14-university alliance that seeks to
increase the number of minorities in MBA programs and managerial positions. CGSM recruits African-Americans, Hispanics and Native
Americans for merit-based fellowships, as well as other persons who can demonstrate a commitment to CGSM's mission and can best assist
the Consortium in pursuing that mission.
Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT)
www.ml4t.org
McCombs is one of the 25+ member schools that have joined together to increase the presence of qualified students of color in major
graduate business schools. Over a nearly 12-month period culminating in their application submissions, participants receive one-on-one
coaching from experienced MLT staff and MBA admissions officers while also attending seminars focusing on key elements of the application
process. Some areas of emphasis include GMAT preparation, school research and selection, and application/essay strategy.
National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA)
The Texas MBA Program partners with the National Black MBA Association locally and nationally. Established in 1970 and dedicated to
developing collaborations that result in the creation of intellectual and economic wealth in the Black community, the National Black MBA
Association works with more than 400 of the country’s top business organizations and has partners and networks in a wide range of industries
as well as the public and private sector.
National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA)
McCombs is a corporate advisory board member of NSHMBA, which is widely regarded as a “Premier Hispanic Organization.” NSHMBA
serves 29 chapters and 6,000 members in the United States and Puerto Rico. It exists to foster Hispanic leadership through graduate
management education and professional development. The Texas MBA program proudly supports local and national NSHMBA initiatives.
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Please describe any scholarship and/or fellowship opportunities for minority and/or female students attending your school.
Name of fellowship program: Forté Foundation Fellowship
Deadline for application: April 1st
Scholarship award amount: Varies
Website or other contact information: www.fortefoundation.org
The Forté Foundation is an organization of top business schools and corporations whose mission is to increase the number of women in business.
Each year, Forté Scholars are selected based on exemplary leadership and achievement. Scholars participate fully in the Forté Scholars programs. No
separate application is required to be considered a Forté Scholar.
Name of fellowship program: Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellowship
Deadline for application: January 5th
Scholarship award amount: Full tuition and fees for two years (64 hours of graduate study)
Website or other contact information: www.cgsm.org
The mission of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, an alliance of leading American business schools and some of our country’s top
corporations, is to enhance diversity in business education and leadership by helping to reduce the serious underrepresentation of African-Americans,
Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans in both our member schools’ enrollments and the ranks of management. The organization strives to achieve
this mission by recruiting for graduate business education qualified U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents from these underrepresented groups,
as well as other persons who can demonstrate a commitment to the Consortium’s mission and can best assist the Consortium in pursuing this mission.
PROMINENT ALUMNI/FACULTY
Please provide information about prominent minority faculty members at your school.
John Butler, professor in the department of management and Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
John Sibley Butler holds the Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business in the Graduate School of Business (department of management).
He is the director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the director of the Institute for Innovation, Creativity and Capital (IC²). His
research is in the areas of organizational behavior and new venture development. He has taught entrepreneurship around the globe, including Mexico
and China. His work is in organizational science and entrepreneurship. His books and monographs include Framework for Research on Leadership,
Cohesion and Values; Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics; All That We Can Be: Black
Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way (with Charles C. Moskos—winner of the Washington Monthly Best Book Award); and Immigrant and
Minority Entrepreneurship: The Continuous Rebirth of American Communities (with George Kozmetsky).
Butler has appeared on over 30 radio and television programs, including Eye On America (CBS Nightly News), The Jim Lehrer News Hour, CBS Radio
Talk Show, The Osgood Report and Public Radio. His research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Time
Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and other newspapers and magazines across America. He also served on the board of directors for the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship from 2003 to 2006. This board oversees the appointment of more than 900 scholars to countries around the globe.
Butler received his undergraduate education from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and a PhD from Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois. He is a decorated Vietnam veteran.
John N. Doggett, senior lecturer in the department of management
John N. Doggett is a senior lecturer of international entrepreneurship, management and sustainability at the McCombs School of Business of the
University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at UT’s IC2 Institute and cofounder of UT’s Idea to Product Competition™. He has
been voted Outstanding Professor by students in the McCombs’ Texas evening MBA program (2007), the Texas MBA (full-time) program (2008, 2004
and 1998), the Texas executive MBA in Dallas-Ft.Worth (2004), and UT’s executive engineering management master’s program (2002).
Doggett has extensive experience in international business. Post-MBA, he worked for McKinsey & Co., both in Washington and Denmark, before
founding his own international management consulting firm. His firm helped business and governments in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, the
Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East to develop and carry out strategies to become more competitive. He is currently an advisor to CEOs of
firms in a wide range of industries in Asia, Europe and the United States. Since 2000, he has spent part of each summer and winter teaching
entrepreneurship and global competition workshops in Austria, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. In addition,
he has served as a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has led McCombs MBA students on business tours of China.
Doggett received BA from Claremont Men’s College in 1969, his law degree from Yale Law School in 1972 and his MBA from Harvard Business School
in 1981.
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Genaro J. Gutierrez, associate professor of information, risk and operations management
Dr. Genaro J. Gutierrez teaches operations management, global operations strategy, and management of projects in the MBA program and in executive
seminars. He is also director and professor of the Texas executive MBA in Mexico City.
Before joining the University of Texas in 1988, Gutierrez worked in the industry for five years. He was a visiting professor at the Anderson Graduate
School of Business at UCLA in 1993-1994, and served as adviser to the Economic Deregulation Unit of the Mexican Commerce and Industry Secretariat
in 1995.
His current research interests include the incorporation of commodity exchanges in supply chain procurement, and the improvement of information
quality and reliability in order fulfillment information systems. Gutierrez’s recent publications have appeared in Management Science, Operations
Research, IIE Transactions and The European Journal of Operations Research.
Gutierrez obtained his MS and PhD degrees in industrial engineering from Stanford University. He also received the degree of Ingeniero Industrial y
de Sistemas from ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico.
Please provide information about prominent minority alumni from your school.
Sara Martinez Tucker, MBA 1979, president and chief executive officer, Hispanic Scholarship Fund
A staunch supporter of education, Sara Martinez Tucker serves as president and CEO of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation’s leading
organization supporting Hispanic higher education. She recently was named among the “25 Most Influential Hispanics in America” by Time magazine.
Before joining HSF, Martinez Tucker was the first Hispanic female executive at AT&T, where she enjoyed a 16-year career.
Martinez Tucker has funneled her passion for community and education into her current work with HSF. HSF has, since 1975, awarded $170 million
in college scholarships to 73,000 deserving students at 1,700 universities and colleges throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin
Islands and Guam. Martinez Tucker seeks to double the proportion of Hispanics holding college degrees to 18 percent by 2010. She has also led the
launch of community outreach programs to raise college expectations in Latino families and communities. To date, these programs have directly
touched more than 65,000 students, parents, HSF alumni and community members.
Martinez Tucker was named director to the Student Loan Marketing Association by President George W. Bush in 2001; in September 2005, U.S.
Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings appointed her to the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. A founding member of
both the National Center for Educational Accountability and the National Scholarship Providers Association, she has served, since 2001, on the seven-
member North American Diversity Advisory Board for Toyota.
C. Kim Goodwin, MBA 1987, managing editor and head of equities, Credit Suisse
Named one of the “Top 50 African-Americans on Wall Street” by Black Enterprise (2002), C. Kim Goodwin is currently responsible for the management
of all Credit Suisse equity products in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
Goodwin has considerable experience in both portfolio management and team leadership. She was previously the chief investment officer of equities
at State Street Research Management, where she served as a member of the firm’s six-person management committee. In her role there, she managed
58 portfolio managers, analysts, traders and quantitative personnel, and during her tenure effected significant performance improvement across all
equity products. In her 20-year career, she has also served as CIO of U.S. Growth Equities for American Century, and as senior vice president and
portfolio manager of large- and mid-cap funds for Putnam Investments in Boston.
Goodwin has been a regular panelist on CNBC’s Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street. She has written feature articles for Barron’s, BusinessWeek, Times and
USA Today, and has served as keynote speaker, panelist and presenter at financial and leadership conferences around the country. Among numerous
distinctions, she is the recipient of the 1999 Young Texas Award from the Ex-Students’ Association at UT Austin.
Goodwin received her undergraduate degree from Princeton in politics. At the University of Texas she took a dual degree, receiving a master’s from
the LBJ School of Public Affairs and an MBA from McCombs, where she was a Consortium Fellow.
Haston Lewis II, MBA 1991, vice president of customer marketing, Frito-Lay, Inc.
Haston Lewis is currently the vice president of customer marketing and business development for PepsiCo Foodservice. He is responsible for leading
the strategic development of marketing plans aimed at helping PepsiCo leverage world-class marketing to build strategic growth partnerships with
existing and new Foodservice customers. His customer marketing team leads the marketing agenda with strategic customers across all PepsiCo lines
of business. His business development team develops capabilities and plans that leverage PepsiCo marketing to create sustainable new partnerships
for PepsiCo.
Lewis has 17 years of CPG marketing experience and is a 14-year veteran of PepsiCo, joining Frito-Lay initially in 1991. He has brand marketing
experience on Doritos tortilla chips, Grandma’s cookies and Prego spaghetti sauce. He also has extensive retail marketing experience, leading Frito-
Lay marketing to broaden its traditional consumer agenda to include shopping behavior and marketplace dynamics. He also helped Frito-Lay earn two
“Wal-Mart Vendor of the Year” awards during his tenure as director of customer marketing on Frito-Lay’s Wal-Mart team.
Prior to Frito-Lay and business school, Lewis was a customer support and logistics specialist at ARCO Chemical Company. His undergraduate degree
is from Temple University, and he is an alumnus of INROADS/Philadelphia as well as of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management.
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Lewis serves as an executive sponsor for the Frito-Lay Black Professionals Association (BPA).
Please provide information about prominent female faculty members at your school.
Laura Starks, professor in the department of finance
Professor Starks joined the UT faculty in 1986 and has served as Finance Department Chair since 2002. She has held leadership positions in the
American Finance Association, the Financial Management Association and the Western Finance Association, and has served as associate editor on the
following journals: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Services
Research, Contemporary Finance Digest, and Journal of Financial Research. Starks’ contributions to the field have been recognized by the Financial
Management Association (Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 1998), the Western Finance Association (Award for Best Paper in Corporate
Finance, 1997), the Journal of Finance (Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Award, 1996), and the McCombs School (awards for Research Excellence
and Outstanding Research Contributions).
Starks received her bachelor’s degree and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and her MBA from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Janet Dukerich, senior associate dean and professor of management
Professor Dukerich’s current research interests focus on organizational identification processes, the creation and maintenance of organizational identity,
reputation management, and corruption control processes in organizations. She has published papers in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy
of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied
Social Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, and Human Relations. Dukerich is a member of the editorial board for Corporate Reputation Review
and Journal of Management Inquiry. She was awarded the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award for 1992 with Professor Jane Dutton
for their research on the Port Authority and homelessness. She also received an Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Achievement
(with Jane Dutton and CV Harquail) in 2000. In 2003, she was awarded the Fawn & Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award for Executive Education.
Dukerich, who holds the William H. Arlitt, Jr. Professorship of Management, teaches negotiation and high performance teams in organizations. She
has taught at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral student level, as well as executives in the United States, Europe, Mexico and China.
Dukerich received her PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Minnesota. Both her BA and MA are from Ohio State University.
Susan Broniarczyk, professor in the department of marketing
Professor Broniarczyk’s research examines consumer behavior and decision-making with a specialized emphasis on branding and product assortment.
The Society for Consumer Psychology, Division 23 of the American Psychological Association, awarded her its first Early Career Contribution Award in
2000. The American Marketing Association awarded her dissertation on branding the John A. Howard Award in 1992. Her research on product
assortment, published in the Journal of Marketing Research, received the 2003 O’Dell Award from the American Marketing Association for its research
contribution. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Academy of Marketing
Sciences, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Letters and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She is an
associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Research and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Research. She was the 2003
treasurer for the Association for Consumer Research (ACR), was cochair of the 2001 ACR conference and has served on the ACR advisory board.
Broniarczyk’s received a BS in marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PhD in marketing from the University of Florida.
Please provide information about prominent alumnae from your school.
Elaine Agather, MBA 1979, chairman, Chase-Dallas
Elaine Agather is chairman of Chase-Dallas. She also serves as south region head and managing director of J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
Agather joined Chemical Bank of New York in 1979, working in London, San Francisco and New York until she relocated to Dallas in 1984. After the
merger of Chemical and Texas Commerce Bank, she was promoted to chairman of Texas Commerce Bank in Fort Worth in 1992 and joined the Private
Bank to manage client advisory groups across the state in 1997. In 1999, she was elected chairman and CEO of Dallas.
Agather is a member of The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Board of Directors and the Dallas Citizens Council. She is a member of World
Presidents Organization and Charter 100. She is on the advisory board of directors for the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Performing
Arts Fort Worth, Inc., Fossil, Inc., the Gordie Foundation, the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, and Texas Ballet Theater. She is a member
of the development board for the University of Texas and of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at
Southern Methodist University.
Agather’s recent awards include the TACA Silver Cup Award for her work with the Dallas arts community (2008), the Northwood University
Distinguished Women's Award and the Great Women of Texas Award (2005), the Maura Award—Women Helping Women (2002), the Kim Dawson
Attitude Award (Attitudes & Attire), The Family Place’s Trailblazer Award, and the Women of Excellence Award from Women’s Enterprise magazine
(2001).
Ellen Keszler, MBA 1987, president and chief executive officer, Clear Sky Associates
Ellen Keszler serves as president of CEO of Clear Sky Associates, a management and strategy consulting firm focused on the technology and travel
industries. Previously, she was president of Travelocity Business, launching this new online-oriented corporate travel business in 2003 and growing it
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to over $30 million in revenue in less than four years, with operations in the United States and United Kingdom. Her professional background includes
approximately 20 years in a wide variety of functions including business unit leadership for both start-up businesses as well as a $1 billion revenue
division of Sabre Holdings. In these leadership roles she had responsibility for sales, account management, software product management, marketing
and operations. The first 13 years of her career were spent in a wide variety of finance functions at JCPenney, American Airlines and Sabre Holdings.
Keszler is a member of the advisory council of the McCombs School of Business. She serves on numerous boards, including schools, news media
and public radio stations. She was on the board of the National Business Travel Association Foundation for three years, presiding for two years as its
chair. She has twice served as a mentor at Menttium, an organization dedicated to improving professional performance of high potential female
executives through mentoring. She was also named one of the 100 most powerful women in travel by Travel Agent Magazine for four consecutive
years.
Heather Kennedy, MBA 1999, national marketing director, Whole Foods Market
Heather Kennedy is the national marketing director at Whole Foods Market in Austin, Texas. She is responsible for the team that creates and executes
the marketing strategy for all national programs, including department and product specific promotions, global corporate initiatives, private label
marketing and communication and management of the gift card program. Prior to joining Whole Foods Market, she worked in brand management at
Kraft Foods on businesses such as DiGiorno Pizza, Taco Bell Home Originals and Kraft Salad Dressing. She also worked for the nonprofit America’s
Second Harvest, a national hunger relief organization in Chicago, Ill.
Kennedy received her MBA from the McCombs School of Business in 1999 and became an adjunct lecturer for McCombs in 2008, teaching both
brand management and strategic corporate social responsibility. A devoted violist, she also believes in the power of music education and sat on the
Austin Chamber Music Center Board from 2006 to 2008.
CURRICULUM AND RESEARCH
Please describe any faculty and/or student research projects that focus on diversity, multiculturalism and/or minority issues.
Dr. John Butler has made a life career researching minority and gender issues in government institutions (such as the military) and in the workplace.
His work includes Inequality in the Military: The Black Experience (1979) and Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A
Reconsideration of Race and Economics (1991). His co-authored book, All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way
(1996), won the Washington Monthly Best Book Award. More recent work explores the immigrant experience: Immigrant and Minority
Entrepreneurship: Building American Communities and Economies (coedited, 2002). His current projects include: “Born and Bred in Texas: Three
Generations of Successful Black Women,” as well as “Sexual Harassment as a Social Problem.”
Dr. Paul V. Martorana, whose research areas include organizational behavior, and organizational change and redesign, is currently working on a series
of projects that address gender and stereotyping: “Gender and Mentoring,” “Power, Emotion and Voice: Individual Reactions and Responses to Society
Myths Concerning a Stereotyped Group,” and “The Activist Within All of Us: Examinations of Positive Organization Change.” Martorana has been given
a Faculty Fellowship Award from the Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Texas to further his research.
Dr. Emily T. Amanatullah actively researches dispute resolution, gender and organizational behavior, and is currently engaged in a plethora of projects
related to negotiations, salary and stereotyping: “Backlash Against Assertive Female Negotiators: Who Does it, When and Why?” “Negotiating Gender
Role Stereotype Violation in Salary Negotiations,” and “Reconciling Contradictory Gender Stereotypes in Organizations: The Role of Self-Monitoring.”
The research interests of Dr. Kristie J. Loescher include diversity, change management and ethics. Her article, “Managing Diversity Challenges: Two
Case Perspectives,” appeared in The 2007 Pfeiffer Annual: Human Resources Management (ed. Robert Preziosi).
Dr. Alok Kumar investigates asset pricing, behavior finance, and capital markets. His current research includes, “Do Markets Under-Estimate the
Forecasting Abilities of Female and Minority Equity Analysts?”
ORGANIZATIONS AND STUDENT LIFE
Please provide information on your school diversity student and alumni organizations.
The Consortium Fellows Business Association (CFBA)
www.mccombs.utexas.edu/students/cfba/index.htm
The Consortium Fellows Business Association at the University of Texas at Austin is a student organization designed to support the Consortium Fellows
at the McCombs School of Business. The parent organization, the Consortium For Graduate Study in Management, is a 14-university alliance working
to facilitate excellence in graduate business education. Fellows participate in the Consortium through support from its alumni organization and direct
support from the Consortium's business partners.
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Black Graduate Business Association (BGBA)
www.mccombs.utexas.edu/studentsbgba
The Black Graduate Business Association was founded in 1985. The foundation and success of the BGBA is built on the diversity and achievements
of its membership. BGBA members represent a variety of academic concentrations, political, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds. Member
business interests range from the public to the private sector, entrepreneurship, and national and international markets in various areas of the business
world. The purpose of the BGBA is to provide a nexus through fellowship to broaden, enhance and promote the successful future of its membership.
The BGBA is a professional organization of predominately African-American students pursuing a MBA or PhD degree at the University of Texas at
Austin.
Hispanic Graduate Business Association (HGBA)
www.mccombs.utexas.edu/students/hgba
The Hispanic Graduate Business Association’s mission is to enhance the Hispanic-American and Latin-American student MBA experience by providing
additional tools to develop his/her professional, academic and social development. It is a diverse group that strives to build a solid networking platform
for its members, not only while they are in the MBA program but also years after graduating.
Graduate Women in Business (GWIB)
www.mccombs.utexas.edu/students/gwib
The Graduate Women in Business Student Organization strives to provide an atmosphere conducive to the professional and personal development of
its members.
GWIB's goals include the following:
• To improve the visibility of women in the McCombs School of Business
• To offer career-development resources to our members
• To provide opportunities for members to enhance the skills they need to remain competitive in the marketplace (i.e., networking)
• To be an informational resource for prospective McCombs students
• To assist organizations serving women in the Austin community
• To connect members to articles and news stories that are related to women's issues in the workplace
• To promote a spirit of camaraderie among members and women in the business community in a variety of social settings and events
MBA OutSource
www.mccombs.utexas.edu/students/glgbn
MBA OutSource is a social and career networking group for UT MBAs who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning or just a friend or
supporter of the GLBT community. Some of OutSource's efforts include:
• Working with prospective students to answer questions about GLBT life at McCombs and in Austin
• Organizing social events each semester, including events which are open to the MBA community at large
• Holding a Diversity Career Networking Social each fall, which is open to the MBA community at large
Please also provide information on any programs, including on-campus and universitywide programs in which MBA students participate that focus on
issues related to women or minorities.
Women in Business Leadership Conference
mba.mccombs.utexas.edu/MBAWomen/conference
Each year, McCombs hosts the annual Women in Business Leadership Conference. The mission of the conference is to cultivate and enrich the MBA
women's academic experience, enhance career networks for women and celebrate the remarkable strengths women bring to corporate America. We
bring together motivated MBA students, alumni, successful corporate businesswomen and thriving entrepreneurs from all over the country to connect,
discuss and learn more about issues facing women.
Please provide information on any institutes and/or related programs that focus on diversity.
The University of Texas at Austin, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE)
www.utexas.edu/diversity/index.php
The University of Texas at Austin strives for an inclusive community that fosters an open, enlightened and robust learning environment. A free exchange
of ideas requires mutual respect and consideration for our differences. The DDCE is a successful model for integrating diversity into the core mission
of a university and integrating community engagement into teaching, research and service. As well, we strive to connect the university’s intellectual
resources to communities across Texas and offer education to those who may face the greatest challenges in accessing it. The DDCE works with a
broad range of student, faculty, staff and community constituents to help make The University of Texas at Austin a national model for diversity in higher
education.
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Please describe any diversity recruiting events for employers recruiting minority and/or female students at or near your school.
The Texas MBA program is a partner with the National Black MBA Association and the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, and provides support for
students to attend each organization’s annual conference and career fair.
McCombs School of Business is also an educational sponsor of the Austin, Texas, chapters of the National Black MBA Association and the National
Society of Hispanic MBAs.
As a partner with The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, the Texas MBA program also supports the annual Consortium Orientation
Program where students interact with representatives of the more than 100 corporate partners of The Consortium.
STRATEGIC PLAN AND LEADERSHIP
Please provide your school’s diversity mission statement.
From the School’s Strategic Plan (April 2009)
“The quality of our pedagogic efforts depends on our ability to combine innovative teachers and talented students, both of whom have a wide range
of experiences and cultural perspectives. Therefore, achieving teaching excellence at McCombs requires that we recruit a talented and diverse student
body.”
How does your school’s leadership communicate the importance of diversity to your student body, faculty and administration?
The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business communicates the importance of diversity to its student body first through the programs
it sponsors, such as the Explore McCombs Diversity Weekend, to recruit minority and female students and educate them about McCombs, the MBA
degree and career opportunities.
McCombs’ longtime partnerships with organizations that promote minorities and women in business, such as the Consortium for Graduate Study in
Management, also demonstrate the importance of diversity. In addition, by participating in the conferences, forums and fairs organized by these
organizations, McCombs is a visible partner in their efforts.
DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Please describe the demographics of your most recent entering class.
Percentage of female students: 31 percent
Percentage of minority students: 22 percent
White/Caucasian: 53 percent
African-American/Black: 6 percent
Hispanic/Latino: 5 percent
Asian: 11 percent
Average age of students: 28
Please describe the geographic diversity of your most recent entering class.
Percentage of U.S. citizens and permanent residents:
U.S. citizens: 72 percent
Permanent residents: 4 percent
Percentage of in-state and out-of-state students: In-state: 33 percent; Out-of-state: 43 percent
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Distribution of students from different U.S. regions:
Mid-Atlantic : 6 percent
Midwest: 5 percent
Northeast: 10 percent
South: 5 percent
Southwest: 36 percent
West: 12 percent
Please describe the selectivity of your school for the most recent application cycle.
Number of applicants: 1,929
Number of admits: 516
Number of matriculants: 264
Please describe the academic and employment backgrounds of your most recent entering class.
Average years of pre-MBA work experience: Five
Percentage of students who studied different undergraduate disciplines:
Humanities: 6 percent
Social science: 8 percent
Science: 3 percent
Business/commerce: 31 percent
Computer science: 5 percent
Economics: 15 percent
Engineering: 27 percent
Law: 1 percent
Other: 4 percent
Please provide student employment information for the most recent graduating class.
Average starting salary: $96,537
Percentage of students entering different industries:
Consulting: 21.2 percent
Consumer products: 10.1 percent
Financial services: 31.8 percent
Manufacturing: 7.4 percent
Media/entertainment: 2.1 percent
Nonprofit: 0.5 percent
Petroleum/energy: 5.3 percent
Pharmaceutical/biotechnology/health care products: 1 percent
Real estate: 3.7 percent
Technology: 12.7 percent
Other: 4.2 percent
Percentage of students working in different functions:
Consulting: 23.8 percent
Finance/accounting: 39.2 percent
General management: 14.3 percent
Marketing/sales: 17.5 percent
Operations/logistics: 4.2 percent
Other: 1 percent
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Major recruiting companies:
Accenture
American Airlines
American Express Co.
Apple
AT&T
Bank of America
Chevron
Citigroup
Dell
Deloitte Consulting
General Mills
Goldman Sachs & Co.
J.P. Morgan Chase
McKinsey & Co.
Microsoft Corp.
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