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The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is located at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. ==History== The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business was first formed in 1888 as the college's Commercial Department. The first students graduated from the course in 1894. In its first two decades, the program went through several organizational revisions, including various name changes. By 1911, the program (then named School of Commerce) was already recognized as a top business institution in the U.S. A 1911 newspaper, reporting about the economics department, said: :"''When so eminent an authority as professor L. C. Marshall of the University of Chicago reports that the work in the department of economics of our school is comparable to that given in the best institutions in the country, we feel that we are paid one of the highest tributes ever. And this conclusion of professor Marshalls was not reached after any superficial investigation. Months were spent in collecting material from the various degree conferring institutions . . . In the number of hours instruction given, the number of students in the courses, and the general standard of the courses, we are surpassed by only a very few of the large universities.''"〔 In 1918, the school became known as the School of Commerce and Business Administration. At that time, the school then included five departments: markets, business administration, accounting, political science, and history. Other majors continued to be added over time. In 1952, under the direction of professor C. D. McBride, the Management Institute came into existence. Utah's economy was rapidly shifting from agriculture to business, and Utah State University, as the land-grant institution in Utah, had an obligation to provide educational services to people in business and industry throughout Utah comparable to those being offered in agriculture and rural life through the Cooperative Extension Service. The Management Institute was in charge of providing the services of business educational services. By 1957, the School of Commerce and Business Administration had become the College of Business and Social Sciences, with M. R. Merrill as dean. Of the four departments, three were strictly social science: history and political science, economics and sociology. In 1959, Robert P. Collier became acting dean. The college included the departments of business administration and secretarial science, history and political science, sociology and social work, and economics. By 1966, business courses were taught in more than a dozen buildings all over campus. Accounting, which had enjoyed department status early in the college's history but had been under business administration for many years, became a separate department again. In addition to the accounting department, the College of Business included six other departments along with The Division of Military Science and aerospace studies. The time had come for the college to have its own building. The Utah Building Board approved a $600,000 federal grant for a business building, and on Jan. 11, 1967, the schematic plans for the building were approved by the USU Board of Trustees. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on Dec. 10, 1968, with a projected cost of $1,591,700 for the structure. On May 8, 1970, the building was dedicated as the George S. Eccles Business Building. The Eccles Building reaches nine stories high. It includes a three-story classroom base, and six additional stories of faculty offices, seminar rooms and other facilities. The undergraduate program of the College of Business was accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in 1971, and in 1981 the graduate (master's) program was accredited by AACSB. In February 1983, the department of accounting became the school of accountancy. By 1986, the College of Business had a full-time enrollment of approximately 1,398 students in its undergraduate and graduate programs (Self-Study Report, 1986). Thirty-nine full-time faculty and 32 part-time faculty were employed in three departments: business administration, administrative systems and business education, and accounting. The department of economics remained under the joint administration of the colleges of business and agriculture. In 2007, Utah State's College of Business became the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business after a $26 million donation by the Huntsman Foundation. The school hopes to model itself after Jon Huntsman, Sr.'s alma mater, the prestigious Wharton School of Business located at the University of Pennsylvania.〔 〕 The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business now offers 10 undergraduate majors, six graduate degrees, with faculty and staff totaling 136 members.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon M. Huntsman School of Business」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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