About the School of Business and Management

The School of Business and Management provides relevant, rigorous and career-focused degree programs that prepare leaders to add value to their firms and organizations in the dynamic global marketplace. Like all of Thomas Edison State University schools, our pedagogy, credit-earning opportunities and formats meet the needs of self-directed adults who seek to achieve educational and professional goals.

The University and The School of Business and Management seeks:

1. To provide curricula and degree opportunities of appropriate level and composition consistent with the aspirations of our students, the public welfare and the highest qualitative standards of American higher education.
2. To create a system of college-level learning opportunities for adults by organizing collegiate and sponsored noncollegiate instruction into coherent degree strategies.
3. To make available educationally valid learning opportunities that serve as alternatives to college classroom study, and which are appropriate to the varied needs and learning styles of adults.
4. To develop and implement processes for the valid and reliable assessment of experiential and extra-collegiate college-level learning, and to provide appropriate academic recognition for knowledge so identified consistent with high standards of quality and rigor.
5. To serve higher education and the public interest as a center of innovation, information, policy formulation and advocacy on behalf of adult learners.

Vision and Mission Statement

The School of Business and Management delivers a practitioner-oriented, competency-based business education within a distance-learning environment that is learner-centered and prepares ethically responsible, and value-creating and globally engaged business professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

• Academic Excellence: Deliver quality business and management education that is industry relevant and career enabling.
• Learning Community: Provide academic and professional learning opportunities emphasizing investigation of and enrichment through diverse college-level practitioner-scholar educational experiences.
• Education Innovation/Alternative Educational Approaches: Create alternative learning opportunities that are adult-learning oriented, practitioner focused and measurable consistent with traditional matriculation and course work.
• Assessment: Apply rigorous data collection, assessment and reporting processes to program quality and stakeholder value aligned with business school accreditation quality standards.
• Public Engagement: Provide educational opportunities promoting advocacy and inquiry and practice leadership associated with sponsoring business activities that promote public interest, policy, and innovation.
• Professional Service: Offer business education related services to diverse constituencies fostering public service and business enabling partnerships to achieve community goals.
• Ethical Orientation: Be an advocate and exemplar of ethical behavior in higher education and the global business community.