By Jay Dewey
Special to Inside
DePaul University welcomed the ultimate commuter students this spring when 23 students from a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program jointly run by DePaul and the Czech Management Center (CMC) traveled 4,500 miles from Prague to Chicago to take their final course and receive DePaul diplomas.
The Czech students arrived March 6 to take their final course, "Strategic Analysis for Competing Globally," which challenged student teams to compete in running simulated businesses. After completing this course, the Czech class participated in a commencement ceremony with fellow graduate students from DePaul's MBA in International Marketing and Finance program March 19 at the Chicago Athletic Club, 12 S. Michigan Ave.
Richard Driehaus, CEO of Driehaus Capital Management, Inc., who holds two degrees from DePaul, including an MBA, delivered the graduation address. The class was the second cohort of students from the Czech program to graduate from DePaul and the first to do so in Chicago. The program was introduced by DePaul in partnership with the CMC in Prague in 2002.
"DePaul's international education programs and growing alumni networks show how the university's influence as an educational institution is spreading well beyond Chicago," said Arthur Kraft, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business dean. "These programs not only expand access to a high-quality DePaul education internationally, but also give DePaul faculty members an opportunity to teach and do research while immersed in another culture—valuable, firsthand experience that they bring back to their DePaul classrooms in Chicago."
The Czech MBA students' graduation ceremony was one of three the university is hosting this spring around the world. DePaul officials traveled to the Arabian Gulf nation of Bahrain March 9 to award diplomas to 17 students enrolled in an MBA program offered by the university and the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance in Manama. On April 24, the university will hold a commencement in Hong Kong for 27 students in MBA and School for New Learning programs offered through a partnership with the International Bank of Asia.
The newly minted graduates will join 127 others who have already matriculated from DePaul through the university's international degree programs. They have formed active alumni clubs in the three countries during the last six years.
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