The mission of the College of Commerce is to be a leader in the discovery and development of skills and knowledge as they relate to business and its global role. To this end, the College actively serves markets in Chicago and around the world by providing innovative educational programs. The College focuses its teaching and research on both the current business setting and important future issues while providing service to both the academic and professional communities. The College seeks to serve individuals and organizations desiring access to the highest quality business education as a means of achieving a full range of intellectual and professional goals while integrating the promotion of ethical and responsible leadership. This is a cooperative effort to create a framework for solving business problems within a global society. Faculty members in Commerce not only have a responsibility to maintain their academic and professional qualifications, primarily through discipline-based scholarship, but also to make contributions to practice and to research in support of teaching and pedagogy. In this way, the College holds high quality teaching and pedagogical innovation at the same level of importance as scholarship and research.
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