The importance of getting the right mix of people at Ross
Gene Anderson, Associate Dean for Degree Programs
Issue date: 9/25/06 Section: Dean's Office
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As we get to know all the new faces that have joined our community in the last few weeks, I thought this might be a good time to highlight why it is so important that Ross bring together the right mix of faculty and students.
Faculty
We select faculty to come to Michigan first and foremost for their scholarship - their ability to create and disseminate intellectual capital with significant business impact. Their scholarship and participation in international conversations about their specialties is what keeps the Ross community in touch with the latest thinking.
As a group, our faculty is distinguished through its broad-based and diverse strengths across all areas, collaborative culture, and ability to address both theory and practice. No other business school brings all these characteristics together in quite the same way. The outstanding breadth of our faculty and their ideas is widely recognized. Whereas most of our peer schools focus their research strength in a few disciplines, Ross is truly strong across the board and you'll see RSB ranked high in many different disciplines. We also fare well in overall rankings of faculty research - #7 in research by the Financial Times, #10 in the UT Dallas 'Top 100 Business School Research Rankings', and 15th by BusinessWeek. While none of the rankings are perfect, they are nevertheless 'good news' and a nice recognition of the great work our faculty produces year after year.
We are fortunate to have a very diverse group of faculty here at the school in terms of their experience, interests, nationality, and skills. In terms of demographics, we do well in comparison to many of our peer schools. We all continue to face significant challenges, though, especially in terms of women and under-represented minorities. While we have the highest percentage of women on our faculty among the BusinessWeek Top 10 at 24%, the average for the other nine schools is just 18%. We have a very international group, too, with nearly 50% of tenure-track faculty of non-U.S. origin.
Faculty
We select faculty to come to Michigan first and foremost for their scholarship - their ability to create and disseminate intellectual capital with significant business impact. Their scholarship and participation in international conversations about their specialties is what keeps the Ross community in touch with the latest thinking.
As a group, our faculty is distinguished through its broad-based and diverse strengths across all areas, collaborative culture, and ability to address both theory and practice. No other business school brings all these characteristics together in quite the same way. The outstanding breadth of our faculty and their ideas is widely recognized. Whereas most of our peer schools focus their research strength in a few disciplines, Ross is truly strong across the board and you'll see RSB ranked high in many different disciplines. We also fare well in overall rankings of faculty research - #7 in research by the Financial Times, #10 in the UT Dallas 'Top 100 Business School Research Rankings', and 15th by BusinessWeek. While none of the rankings are perfect, they are nevertheless 'good news' and a nice recognition of the great work our faculty produces year after year.
We are fortunate to have a very diverse group of faculty here at the school in terms of their experience, interests, nationality, and skills. In terms of demographics, we do well in comparison to many of our peer schools. We all continue to face significant challenges, though, especially in terms of women and under-represented minorities. While we have the highest percentage of women on our faculty among the BusinessWeek Top 10 at 24%, the average for the other nine schools is just 18%. We have a very international group, too, with nearly 50% of tenure-track faculty of non-U.S. origin.
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