Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity partners with Notre Dame business school | News | Notre Dame News

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the primary intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity for African American males, and the College of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business introduced a partnership right now geared toward supporting the skilled development and management of African American males by way of graduate enterprise training.

Alpha Phi Alpha and Mendoza will collaboratively assist members in search of to develop as leaders by way of a enterprise training. As a part of the partnership, Mendoza will provide a delegated fellowship program, waive software charges to its graduate packages together with the Notre Dame MBA, waive charges for the Graduate Data Examination (GRE) and the Graduate Administration Admission Take a look at (GMAT), and supply check preparation programming, early entry to Mendoza Graduate Enterprise Profession Improvement teaching and alumni mentoring.

“Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. is worked up to accomplice with the College of Notre Dame’s Mendoza Faculty of Enterprise,” mentioned Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Normal President Willis L. Lonzer III. “Our fraternity’s mission locations sturdy emphasis on growing leaders, and due to partnerships like this one will present our members academic alternatives which might be key to furthering that growth.”

The school additionally plans to carry a two-day Alpha Phi Alpha Inclusive Management Immersion in mid-October on the Notre Dame campus that can deal with profession growth {and professional} diploma alternatives at Mendoza. College students will hear from a various panel of scholars, alumni and employees in regards to the Notre Dame expertise and take part in a “Demystifying the Enterprise Case” session.

“The partnership with Alpha Phi Alpha permits us to instantly assist members of the fraternity involved in furthering their affect by way of a graduate enterprise training whereas offering us with the chance to draw an elevated variety of proficient, various candidates to our packages,” mentioned Martijn Cremers, the Martin J. Gillen Dean of Mendoza Faculty of Enterprise. “We’re honored to begin this partnership with this venerable group.”

The Mendoza Faculty of Enterprise on the College of Notre Dame is a premier Catholic enterprise faculty whose mission is to develop leaders who contribute to human flourishing, cooperate with others in solidarity and compete towards turning into the perfect model of themselves by way of serving others. A pacesetter in values-based training with the message of “Develop the Good in Enterprise,” the faculty provides a tutorial expertise that integrates experiential studying, integral management growth and a group of mutual development.

Along with its top-ranked undergraduate research program and doctoral packages in administration and in analytics, Mendoza provides 11 graduate enterprise diploma packages: the Notre Dame MBA (in one- and two-year codecs), Govt MBA-South Bend, Govt MBA-Chicago, Grasp of Science in Enterprise Analytics-Residential, Grasp of Science in Enterprise Analytics-Chicago, Grasp of Science in Finance-Residential, Grasp of Science in Finance-Chicago, Grasp of Science in Administration, Grasp of Science in Accountancy, Govt Grasp of Nonprofit Administration and the Grasp of Nonprofit Administration-Residential. Study extra at mendoza.nd.edu.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, was based on Dec. 4, 1906, at Cornell College in Ithaca, New York. The fraternity has lengthy stood on the forefront of the African American group’s battle for civil rights by way of Alpha males akin to Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, Adam Clayton Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, The Hon. Andrew Younger, Edward Brooke and Cornel West. The fraternity, by way of its greater than 720 school and alumni chapters and general-organization members, serves communities in the US, Canada, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. For extra info, go to apa1906.internet.

Contact: Carol Elliott, director of communications, Mendoza Faculty of Enterprise, celliot1@nd.edu, 574-631-2627