For more information, contact Cindy Young, (937) 775-3232.
March 2, 1999
Unique requirement for business majors
WRIGHT STATE BUSINESS STUDENTS TACKLE
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ISSUES
All business schools teach their students the fundamentals of accounting, management and finance, but very few teach them about environmental issues. Wright State University is in the forefront nationally in training management students about the impact of environmental issues on business.
Wright State’s College of Business and Administration (COBA) is offering a new required course to train management students in environmental issues. Understanding these issues will be as important for tomorrow’s managers as an understanding of employee benefits, marketing or accounting. Wright State is unique because it requires this type of course for all business majors. Other schools offer it as an elective.
“Environmental problems are out there. It’s a permanent issue,” says Mark Cordano. Ph.D., assistant professor of management. “Somewhere in your management career, you will deal with these issues.”
Cordano came to Wright State last fall to teach a new course on “Managing Technology and the Natural Environment.” The course provides an understanding of environmental policy in the United States and reviews the ways businesses manage environmental issues.
“This course is an important addition to the COBA curriculum because of the increasingly important role technological and environmental issues will play in business decisions during the next century,” said Crystal Owen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Management.
Cordano’s students learn about current air and water pollution problems, and try to understand why the issues are so controversial. Cordano stresses that he’s not teaching students to be environmental professionals, but giving future managers a broader knowledge of this area.
“You may not do it from day to day, but you have to understand the function,” Cordano says. “You also have to understand how it affects the bottom line.”
For students interested in environmental education, Wright State’s Institute for Environmental Quality now offers a new environmental health sciences minor. The 35 credit-hour minor will expose students to a broad array of environmental topics to help their understanding of complex environmental issues.
Students will learn about air and water quality, solid and hazardous waste management, and environmental law and management. Other topics include risk assessment, worker health and safety, public health and natural resource management.
The minor is open to science and nonscience majors, and does not require a background in either science or math. Students interested in more information should contact the Institute for Environmental Quality at 775-2201, or visit their Web site at: http://www.wright.edu/academics/ieq. For more information on the management course, contact Cordano at (937) 775-2290.
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