EMBAC offers great in-person opportunities to network and advance professional development – from the industry-event-of-the-year, the annual conference, to the Marketing and Admissions Program to regional meetings. EMBAC also recognizes the convenience and ease of virtual offerings, which help make great content and enlightening discussions more accessible to members. With that in mind, EMBAC has designed several different types of virtual offerings that explore the latest trends, look at topics of current importance, and promote member engagement and discussion.

Delivered in a synchronous (live) format, VDFs are free sessions, one hour or less in duration, typically structured as a facilitated discussion around a topic of importance to the working professional education industry. Some of these VDFs involve an expert, others are purely intended to be a sharing of challenges, insights, and ideas among participants.

EMBAC will continue to add new VDFs in 2024!

Changing Traditional Program Views & Roles: Rethinking the position and role of the MBA and professional doctoral

This session will explore the role of the MBA in the modern business school. Traditional two-year and Executive MBA formats will be compared with newer one-year, online, and hybrid formats. The session will cover Penn State examples of transitioning a two-year MBA to a one-year format, as well as transitioning away from an Executive MBA to an Executive Doctor of Business Administration (DBA). Also included: Planning a new hybrid MBA and offering The Penn State Executive DBA in a hybrid format – both using WeConnect technology.

•   August 28, 2024

•  10-11 AM Eastern
•  Registration Required, No Fee
•  Brian Cameron
  Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Programs and Executive Education, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University
  

  
  In his current role, Cameron has led the rapid growth of the Smeal professional graduate portfolio from four master’s programs and one online graduate certificate, representing approximately 300 students in 2015, to an integrated portfolio of 17 master’s programs, an Executive DBA, and 15 online graduate certificates representing more than 2,300 students.  Professional master’s programs include collaborations with several Penn State colleges and campuses. He also is reorganizing and integrating the non-credit Penn State Executive Educational unit with the Smeal professional graduate programs office and leading a team that researches innovative pedagogical approaches for online and hybrid graduate professional education and non-credit executive education.

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