The Consortium for Graduate Study Announces Tepper School Dean Robert M. Dammon as New Board Chairman

CHESTERFIELD, Mo., Sept. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a national not-for-profit organization focused on diversity and inclusion in American business has announced its new Board of Trustees Chairman, Robert M. Dammon. Dammon is also the Dean of Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and has been a professor of financial economics for nearly 3 decades.   Carnegie Mellon University joined The Consortium in 2001.

The Consortium's Board Chairmen are chosen on a rotational basis, serving 2-year terms.  Each of its 18 member school deans have the opportunity to serve as the organization's leader.

The Consortium's Executive Director and CEO Peter J. Aranda III is pleased to welcome Dammon as Board Chairman. "We are grateful to Dean Dammon for accepting this role," said Aranda. "We are confident that his leadership will allow us to reach our current strategic goals, and bring new insight into helping The Consortium fulfill its mission."

Dammon champions The Consortium's cause and looks forward to his term as Board Chairman.

"Diversity within organizations is a strength," said Dammon. "In business education, diversity benefits the entire class of students by fostering a healthy exchange of ideas and backgrounds. This translates directly into business management, where corporations and institutions benefit by having leadership that better understands and appreciates cultural perspectives and that is increasingly representative of the modern, increasingly global marketplace.

Since its inception in 1966, The Consortium has made great strides in broadening avenues for diversity and inclusion in top MBA programs and businesses. I look forward to working with our academic colleagues and corporate partners in continuing this mission."

About The Consortium - The mission of The Consortium is to enhance diversity in business education and leadership by helping to reduce the serious underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in both our member schools' enrollment and the ranks of management. We will achieve this mission by recruiting for graduate business education qualified U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents who can demonstrate a commitment to The Consortium's mission and can best assist The Consortium in pursuing this mission. Since its inception in 1966, The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management has secured $260 million to advance its mission of promoting diversity and inclusion in American business. The Consortium annually awards over 300 full-tuition scholarships for students to attend one of our 18 top-tier member schools. For additional information regarding The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management please visit www.cgsm.org or call (636) 681-5553.

About the Tepper School of Business - Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical-decision making. The school's notable contributions to the intellectual community include eight Nobel laureates. The school is among those institutions with the highest rate of academic citations in the fields of finance, operations research, organizational behavior and production/operations. The academic offerings of the Tepper School include undergraduate studies in business and economics, graduate studies in business administration and financial engineering, and doctoral studies. 

SOURCE Tepper School of Business