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From credit cards and loans to equity and angel investors, small business owners have a number of options to consider when it comes to company funding. But despite the overall number of viable money sources, small business owners typically have a tough time coming up with the capital they need. That’s due to a combination of the long odds facing start-ups and the cautious post-recession lending landscape.

In 2011, I had an idea: Why not start a Dean’s Book Club for faculty? I thought that starting a book club here at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business in Virginia could be a way to stimulate ideas among our faculty for curricular and pedagogical change. That same year, the book Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession was published, stimulating much discussion among business educators. It seemed an important book for our faculty to read, particularly to encourage us to think more about how we integrate liberal arts and business education.

Leadership styles among CEOs are becoming increasingly divergent. A new breed of high-profile, fast-talking, even brash business leaders seems to be eclipsing generations of the traditional buttoned-down breed of C-suite denizens who made and executed decisions in an understated way.

And they don’t come any more brazen than the business CEO who could become America’s next “CEO,” Donald Trump.

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Three students pursuing graduate degrees in education through the School of Professional & Continuing Studies recently presented research findings at the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium annual conference held at the Thomas R. Fulghum Conference Center in Chesterfield.

The School of Professional and Continuing Studies continued its tradition of honoring excellence among students, faculty and alumni during its annual SPCS Night celebration on May 4, 2016.

Don Forsyth, Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership, explains the group dynamics of cyberbullying.

On April 19, 2016, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offered a mixed media presentation in Cannon Memorial Chapel on the life and folk art of Queena Stovall.

The summer 2016 edition of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute schedule of classes is now available online. Registration is open for all classes.

The School of Professional and Continuing Studies has selected it featured speakers for its 2016 Commencement exercises.