A message from Professor Peter McNamara, MED Chairperson and Head of the School of Business:
'I am happy to report to you that the AOM have approved the Management Education and Development division’s five year review report, which will form a guiding process for future developments in our division. AOM requires that every five years a division undertake a review process, where they reflect on the opportunities, challenges, performance and future direction of their division. AOM review this report and make a decision as to whether or not the division ought to be renewed for a further five years. Under the leadership of Barb Ritter, a committee worked through 2015 and 2016 undertaking this review. I am happy to report that the AOM have accepted this report and renewed the membership of the MED division for the next five years.
I encourage members to review the MED five year report and the comments of the AOM review committees on our MED website. The MED committee has been working over the last number of months implementing some of the recommendations of the 5 year report, which will guide the efforts of the MED committee over the coming years. Amongst many other initiatives that this report has recommended, include a review of our domain statement and updating of our constitution. The committee have worked on both and received approval from AOM for these initiatives to be voted on by the membership. We are finalising the process with AOM and will be doing so soon.
Thanks to all the members of the five year review committee for their work: Barb Ritter (Chairperson), Peter Mc Namara, Toni Ungaretti, Katherine Karl. Thanks also to all the members whom contributed to this work as part of the review process (Ben Arbaugh, Ken Brown, Erika Small, Sabine Hoidn, John Ross, Wanda Cousar, Kim Gower amongst others). The work of this committee was focused on continuing to develop the MED division to serve the needs of us all as members. We hope that you as an MED member will continue to contribute to division’s activities during the Annual meeting, via the conversations on the MED listserv, and most of all in your education research and practice in your home institutions, focused on improving the lives of our students and education partners.'