Business Education

The Johns Hopkins University is pitching a new Global MBA program to students around the world. Loyola University Maryland's business school is luring professionals still fresh in their careers to a new, intensive one-year MBA program. Even the Maryland Institute College of Art is getting down to business, offering students with a creative flair a chance to learn business principles in a new master's program developed for next spring. These programs have sprouted up at Baltimore colleges during one of the bleakest economic periods in decades.

Bernard T. Ferrari's diverse career took another turn in July when he became the second dean in the history of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Ferrari started out as a surgeon before a switch to management, which included a five-year stint as the chief operating officer for the Ochsner Clinic, now known as the Ochsner Medical Center, in Louisiana. From there, he became a senior health care consultant and then director of the global health care practice at McKinsey & Co., a management consultant.

Lillian Blanche Stevens, a retired Baltimore County business teacher and administrator, died Oct. 6 at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson. She was 96 and had earlier lived in Rodgers Forge. Anita Sue Tews, a niece who lives in Federal Way, Wash., said no medical cause of death was determined. She was born on a farming homestead north of Edison, Neb. After graduating from a special program at Edison High School, she began teaching at 17 in a one-room, eight-grade rural school house in Webster County.

A group of Chesapeake High School alumni have banded together to create a scholarship fund in memory of William Norman, the school's long-retired first principal, who was killed this month in Florida. The scholarship, which will be called the Dr. William H. Norman Endowment Fund, is in the early planning stages and will be supported entirely by alumni, at least to start. The group thought helping students afford higher education would be the best way to memorialize the former administrator.

Low enrollment in some high school programs will mean layoffs for five teachers, cuts from full- to half-time jobs for two, and reassignments for two others for the next school year.The nine teachers affected are just over one-third of the 24 teachers who received notices in April that they might face layoffs, cutbacks in hours or reassignment."The goal is not to wipe programs out but to strike a balance," said James R. McGowan. As associate superintendent for administration and instruction, McGowan is responsible for staffing decisions.

Ruby E. Garrett, a retired Baltimore public school educator who stressed the importance of a college education to her students, died of heart failure Wednesday at her Lochearn home. She was 78. She was born and raised Ruby Edith Tobias in Newberry County, South Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in business education in 1953 from Allen University in Columbia, S.C., came to Baltimore in 1954 and began teaching adults in the city schools' Concentrated Employment Program, which was in the old Polytechnic Institute on North Avenue.

Bernard T. Ferrari's diverse career took another turn in July when he became the second dean in the history of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Ferrari started out as a surgeon before a switch to management, which included a five-year stint as the chief operating officer for the Ochsner Clinic, now known as the Ochsner Medical Center, in Louisiana. From there, he became a senior health care consultant and then director of the global health care practice at McKinsey & Co., a management consultant.

The only thing better than a little media attention to reverse the fortunes of a struggling enterprise is a lot of it.The armed forces reported a significant increase in would-be recruits at recruitment centers after the release of the blockbuster military film "Top Gun" several years ago, and gymnastics schools popped up like mushrooms overnight in the United States after the dynamic display of Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut in the 1972 Summer Olympics.But...

A group of Chesapeake High School alumni have banded together to create a scholarship fund in memory of William Norman, the school's long-retired first principal, who was killed this month in Florida. The scholarship, which will be called the Dr. William H. Norman Endowment Fund, is in the early planning stages and will be supported entirely by alumni, at least to start. The group thought helping students afford higher education would be the best way to memorialize the former administrator.

It was a long summer for former Glen Burnie High business education teacher Joyce Coleman. In June she was laid off after 18 years in the school. She wasn't sure what she'd do next.Coleman found solace amid doubt in the thought of 200 students protesting her layoff in front of the school and their parents pleading with board members to not fire her.And on Sept. 4, she was asked to return to the classroom. This time, it would be in the county's vocational education program."If this hadn't worked out, I would have probably taken a neighbor's offer to work with an alternative program for young adults that people have given up on," Coleman said.

Lillian Blanche Stevens, a retired Baltimore County business teacher and administrator, died Oct. 6 at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. She was 96 and had lived in Rodgers Forge. Anita Sue Tews, a niece who lives in Federal Way, Wash., said the cause of death had not been determined. Ms. Stevens was born on a farming homestead north of Edison, Neb. After graduating from a special program at Edison High School, she began teaching at 17 in a one-room, eight-grade rural schoolhouse in Webster County, Neb. She told family members she started a fire of corncobs and coal in a stove each morning to warm the classroom.

Second-year chemistry teacher Mark Wilcox has never had a lot of colleagues at Patterson High School who could help him think up lesson plans or new approaches to a topic. But he has imagined the benefits of reaching across the city and state to those who might have created a better way to teach a chemistry concept. State education officials and business leaders put Wilcox and 29 other teachers in a room and asked them to dream up an online network that would help them be better teachers.

The Johns Hopkins University is pitching a new Global MBA program to students around the world. Loyola University Maryland's business school is luring professionals still fresh in their careers to a new, intensive one-year MBA program. Even the Maryland Institute College of Art is getting down to business, offering students with a creative flair a chance to learn business principles in a new master's program developed for next spring. These programs have sprouted up at Baltimore colleges during one of the bleakest economic periods in decades.

Two Maryland public universities announced multimillion-dollar gifts yesterday. Salisbury University has received a $5.3 million bequest from the estate of socialite Lucy Tull, most of which will endow 16 full scholarships annually to needy students from Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties who wish to pursue medically related studies. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauff- man Foundation to support entrepreneurial education programs.

The Johns Hopkins University has received a $50 million gift that will establish separate business and education schools, university officials announced late yesterday. William Polk Carey, a trustee emeritus at Hopkins, is donating the money through his W.P. Carey Foundation. The gift is the largest to Hopkins in support of business education, the university said in a statement. The Carey Business School and the School of Education will begin operating Jan. 1, replacing the university's School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.

Ruby E. Garrett, a retired Baltimore public school educator who stressed the importance of a college education to her students, died of heart failure Wednesday at her Lochearn home. She was 78. She was born and raised Ruby Edith Tobias in Newberry County, South Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in business education in 1953 from Allen University in Columbia, S.C., came to Baltimore in 1954 and began teaching adults in the city schools' Concentrated Employment Program, which was in the old Polytechnic Institute on North Avenue.