• Mission
• Vision
• Learning Goals

Mission

 “Quality education for a lifetime of achievement.”

The mission of the School of Business is to provide both traditional and nontraditional students with a “quality education for a lifetime of achievement” through a challenging, innovative, and supportive learning environment that enables students to achieve their potential.

The School of Business serves the community through student, alumni, and faculty involvement. The school’s undergraduate population is predominantly drawn from the nine-county service region in southern Indiana, with additional students originating from greater Louisville in Kentucky. A large number of the undergraduate population is first-generation college students, and approximately 85 percent of graduates continue their professional careers in southern Indiana and the greater Louisville area. The school’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) population consists of working professionals and is approximately evenly distributed between southern Indiana and Louisville. The Master of Science in Strategic Finance (MSSF) is an interdisciplinary program catering primarily to finance and accounting professionals in southern Indiana and Louisville.

To accomplish our mission, the School of Business provides excellent professional business and economics education in fully accredited undergraduate and graduate business degree programs with a balanced emphasis on each program. Elements related to our mission are teaching, to enhance student learning and instructional effectiveness continuously so that students can succeed in their professional careers; scholarship, to enhance faculty intellectual capital and the advancement of knowledge; and service, to enrich the university and community through faculty service and professional activities.

 Teaching: Enhancing Student Learning and Faculty Instructional Effectiveness

Enhancing student learning to prepare them for a lifetime of achievement includes increasing their knowledge of subjects common to business curricula and their awareness of ethical, societal, and global dimensions of business. It also includes the development of skills in such areas as technology, group activities and interaction, critical thinking, problem solving, and oral and written communications. Such student knowledge, awareness, and skills will prepare them to make better decisions throughout their life and careers. Enhancing instructional effectiveness includes providing a supportive and innovative learning environment in which the faculty uses a variety of pedagogical approaches appropriate to the subject matter to facilitate student learning. Attributes of a supportive learning environment include academic advising, career counseling, faculty/student interaction, and both traditional and innovative methods of delivery.

Scholarship: Continuously Enhance Faculty Intellectual Capital and Advancement of Knowledge

Enhancing faculty intellectual capital is integral to student learning and instructional effectiveness. The IU Southeast School of Business is primarily focused on teaching. Consistent with our mission statement, the School places equal value on learning and pedagogical research, discipline-based scholarship, and contributions to practice. This scholarship augments faculty intellectual capital, improves instructional pedagogy, and advances knowledge by contributing to academic and professional literature.

 Service: Enriching the University and Community through Faculty Service and Professional Activities

Faculty service has multiple components including service to the university, community, and profession. University service is necessary to successful academic programs. Service to the community at large and its organizations enables them to better respond to changing needs and economic conditions. The practice of academic and professional competencies directly facilitates faculty intellectual development and ultimately contributes to instructional excellence and student learning.

Vision

“To Be a Premier Regional School of Business”

Our vision is to be a premier regional school of business, serving our region comprising southern Indiana and the greater Louisville metropolitan area.

Student Learning Goals

School of Business graduates are knowledgeable professionals who are capable decision-makers, effective communicators, and technologically adept. 

Master of Business Administration

Goal 1: Knowledge of Business

• Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental business concepts, tools, systems and processes. Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental business concepts, tools, systems and processes.
• 1A: Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of managerial accounting. 
• 1B:  Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of economics.
• 1C: Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of finance.
• 1D: Students demonstrate knowledge of current laws, regulations, and legal issues affecting business.
• 1E: Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of marketing.
• 1F: Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of supply chain and operations
• 1G: Students demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of organizational behavior
• 1H: Students demonstrate knowledge of unique characteristics of competing in global markets.

Goal 2: Application and Integration Goal 2: Application and Integration

• Students effectively apply and integrate concepts and tools from relevant business functional areas to analyze and critically evaluate alternative solutions to business problems.
• 2A: Students apply concepts and principles of managerial accounting.
• 2B: Students apply concepts and tools in economics for managerial decisions in alternative market structures.
• 2C: Students apply financial tools to make business decisions.
• 2D: Students apply concepts and principles of current laws, regulations, and legal issues in business
• 2E: Students apply appropriate marketing concepts, theories, principles and tools to business problems.
• 2F: Students apply concepts and principles of supply chain and operations management to business
• 2G: Students use business analytics techniques to aid in the decision-making process.
• 2H: Students communicate effectively in a business environment.
• 2I: Students integrate business concepts, theories, and principles to solve organizational problems.

Goal 3: Global Management Challenges Goal 3 Ethics & Social Responsibility

1. • Students demonstrate knowledge of and sensitivity to ethical issues that will assist them in advancing their organizations and society in an ethical way. Students engage their business knowledge and skills to serve the community .
   • 3A: Students recognize and analyze ethical problems and choose and defend resolutions.
   • 3B: Students demonstrate knowledge of concepts associated with corporate social responsibility.
   • 3C: Students engage their business knowledge and skills to serve the community.

Master of Science in Management

Goals                                                                

1. Knowledge of Management:Students will demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and principles of organizational behavior, management, and ethics.  
   • • Students will apply knowledge of terminology, theories, and principles of organizational behavior/management. 
     • Students will apply knowledge of terminology, theories and principles of organizational development and change
     • Students will apply knowledge of terminology, theories, and principles of ethics
     • Students will demonstrate knowledge of theories and principles of organizational leadership.
     • Students will evaluate issues with teamwork and apply appropriate solutions for improved performance.
     • Students will understand and appropriately apply principles, procedures, and policies related to strategic organizational development.

2. Ability to Think Critically: Students use problem solving methodologies to evaluate given information and use critical thinking skills to arrive at appropriate recommendations.  

1. • • Students will use analytical skills to examine information and then understand what it means, and what it represents.
     • Students will use integrative thinking skills to evaluate managerial plans and decisions and to develop an ethical and competitive organization.
     • Students will use critical thinking skills to formulate managerial solutions and create plans to solve common organizational issues.

3. Communication: Students will demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts and skills of organizational communication.
4. Leadership: Students will demonstrate knowledge of leadership theory and practice that prepares them to lead effectively.

Master of Science in Strategic Finance

Goal 1: Knowledge of Accounting and Finance

• Students demonstrate knowledge of professional accounting and finance concepts and tools.
• 1A: Financial Tools Students apply financial tools to make business decisions.
• 1B: Quantitative Analysis 1B: Quantitative Analysis Students use quantitative analysis to aid in the decision‐analysis process.
• 1C: Managerial Accounting 1C: Managerial Accounting Students apply concepts and principles of management accounting.

Goal 2: Application and Integration of Accounting and Finance

• Students effectively apply and integrate accounting and finance concepts and tools for analysis and decision making.
• 2A: Accounting and Finance Concepts Students effectively apply and integrate accounting and finance concepts and tools for analysis and decision making.
• 2B: Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling Students use financial statement analysis and modeling for the purpose of recommending whether or not to invest in a firm’s equity or extend credit.

Goal 3: Professional Communication Goal 

• Students professionally communicate financial and accounting information and analysis.
• 3A: Financial and Accounting Communication Students effectively communicate financial and accounting information and analysis in a professional manner.

• Students demonstrate knowledge of ethical issues impacting financial reporting and decision making and propose ideas for prevention and detection of problems. Students engage their business knowledge and skills to serve the community.
• 4A: Ethical Issues and Financial Reporting Students demonstrate knowledge of ethical issues impacting financial reporting.
• 4B: Ethical Problems and Prevention Students recognize and analyze ethical problems and propose ideas for prevention and detection of problems.
• 4C: Community Services Students engage their business knowledge and skills to serve the community.