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SIMON BUSINESS WARNER SCHOOL
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
$1.2M $426,818
• In a highly competitive MBA landscape, • The Warner School, with the support of our Student
scholarships remained a critical component Ambassadors and the Director of Equity and
of Simon’s admissions strategy. More than Inclusion at Warner, created the Equity, Diversity and
85% of our Full-Time MBA students received Inclusion Library. This library is open to the Warner
scholarships last year. Community and located in LeChase Hall.
• Simon climbed 4 spots to #25 in Bloomberg • Scholarship support provided critical financial
Businessweek’s Best US Business Schools in assistance through a guaranteed 50% school
2021 and was ranked #33 in the 2022 U.S. counseling scholarship to help address a statewide
News & World Report rankings. shortage. Four of these students were able to
• Already deeply committed to Equity, Diversity, participate in a new Counselors in Residency
and Inclusion, in early 2021, U.S. News & Program – a program designed to provide in-person
World Report announced that among the mental health support during evenings and
full-time MBA programs ranked within the weekends when the University Counseling Center
top-50, Simon was the most diverse MBA (UCC) is closed.
program (#1) in the list of highly-ranked public • The Warner School’s Center for Urban Education
and private business schools. Success (CUES) has hired its first post-doctoral
• Simon’s trailblazing STEM-designated fellow, Dr. Eleni Duret, who will be partnering with
degrees across all specializations and CUES faculty to disseminate research outlining the
programs are in high-demand, preparing remarkable transformation that has taken place at
students to lead and solve the toughest East High School throughout its partnership with the
challenges in today’s data-driven business University of Rochester. Dr. Duret will also have a
environment. partial appointment in the Center for Professional
Development and Education Reform (CPDER) where
she will continue to assist in implementing anti-
racist/anti-oppression initiatives.
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