CES Update: Donna Ford Attallah Academy

Donna Ford Attallah Academy for Teaching & Learning

…because children are our future

Donna Ford Attallah, graduated from Chapman in 1961, gave the College of Educational Studies a $3 million gift to create a teaching academy within the department.

Purpose: The Donna Ford Attallah Academy for Teaching & Learning will improve schooling for children. The Attallah Academy will house all teacher education related programs within the College of Educational Studies. The Academy’s purpose is to study best practices in teacher education and continually adjust its offerings to students to develop and maintain the best teacher education programs in the country. The focus will be to develop exceptional teachers who are equipped to create ideal learning environments for all students in public and private schools.

Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics at Chapman University

"Chapman University alumni and a current student have received major exposure recently for their entrepreneurial success. The entrepreneurial accomplishments of our alumni and students bring honor not only to themselves and their firms, but also bring honor to Chapman University."

-Dr. P.K. Shukla
Director of the Leatherby Center for
Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics

*Current Student and Alumni Updates*

• Alumni firm's listing in Forbes Magazine 2009 Top 20 Promising Companies List: Jonathan Strietzel, '2004 Entrepreneurship emphasis B.Sc.B.A., President and Co-Founder of BigStage, with over 5,000 eligible companies country wide, made the top 20 list which was featured in the Oct. 5th issue of Forbes Magazine as well as being featured currently on Forbes.com. Jonathan commented that "we won this on all of our new technologies coming out shortly and the traction we have gotten in Asia." http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/promising-companies/
• Alumni and firm featured in a textbook on American Entrepreneurs: Mike Brown, '2006 Entrepreneurship emphasis, B.Sc.B.A., co-founder of ModBargains.com, the 2006 1st Place Global Student Entrepreneur Award winner, was featured in “American Entrepreneur” Lynne Doti and Larry Schweikart, Amacom Publishers, 2010, p.457.
• Current Student and firm featured in a textbook on Entrepreneurship: Amy Shukla, '2011 B.Sc. Math and Computer Science major, co-founder of BusinessesAtoZ.com, a website development and hosting company, was featured in “Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures”- Bruce R. Barringer and R. Duane Ireland, Pearson: Prentice Hall Publishing, 2010, pp.144-146.

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