Al, You might get a response from Gay Jentz as well, but at the time the
measure was passed in St. Louis, it was understood to reinstate business
law.  The document was written in terms of "perspectives," and we weren't
permitted to mess with that.  It was simply a matter of getting the
assembly to insert "legal" in the enumeration of fields.  Your colleagues
are evidently giving it the weakest of all interpretations (clearly the one
most favorable to moving resources from your area to theirs).  Not much can
be done about that at the ALSB level (not much that I know about).  It's
just (academic) politics as usual.  You might try to get an "official" read
from the AACSB, but don't count on it.  They seem to go which way the wind
blows.  Bill
 
 
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>When the AACSB adopted the "legal and regulatory" language as part
>of the "perpectives" requirement for MBA programs (with the active
>help and participation of my colleague, Bill Volz), I guess I believed
>that "legal studies" was safely retained as a component of the
>MBA curriculum.  My (other) colleagues from various disciplines
>in our business school are in the process of "proving" me wrong.
>As we review and update our MBA program, it appears that a majority
>of our business school faculty have concluded that there is no
>need for a legal studies course in the MBA.  Instead, legal studies
>is to be included as portion (perhaps 1/6 or so) of a comprehensive
>"perspectives" course in the core of the MBA program.  Obviously I
>have not made the case that what we do in a full-fledged legal studies
>course is sufficiently valuable so as to be retained in our MBA program,
>but I am still making the effort.
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>But here's a question:  Is there general consensus that an approach
>such as the one described above meets the AACSB requirements?
>Is there any evidence that the AACSB requirements anticipate a
>legal studies course as such?
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>Thank you for any insights, history, or comments.  If you
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>Albert Spalding, Interim Chair
>Department of Accounting
>School of Business Administration
>Wayne State University
>Detroit, Michigan 48020
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>Again, thank you.