The School of Management is celebrating its 100th year anniversary this year. We're reflecting on 100 years of impact, one hundred years of leadership and evolution of business education. The small campus nature, the small classrooms where you have an opportunity to really be dialoging with your professors.

Culture that was there at USF. When I look back at the 100 years of School of Management, the school has weathered a lot of ups and downs over the years.

Shortly after it was founded, we faced Great Depression. Stock market crash of 1929. Recently, you know, pandemic and everything else. So all these challenges that we've weathered we’ve been agile, we've been innovative. We've been always adapting our curriculum to the needs of the time.

By innovation, it's hard not to be excited about the future. It's hard not to become, a lifelong learner because there's something new every day. We're dealing with social justice issues. We're dealing with community. What is intentional?

What is a artifact of a system? Both carry the same imperative to intervene, to do better, to make the world better. I can only be thankful that I got the opportunity, through my four years here at USF to be a part of this program

and the School of Management, because, again, I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world. We only have about 25 students in our class. And this means that your the professors know what your career aspirations are, what you care about, what country you come from, and what languages

you might speak. And as an international community, that's really important. The thing that jumped out for me one small class sizes, which meant that we had a lot of engagement with the professors, so we weren't being lectured to a lecture hall.

You really had a chance to talk and dialog about certain aspects, of course, whether it be economics, business, accounting, what have you. Thank you, Joseph, happy to have you in class. We'll make our way across here.

We developed resilience in our students by encouraging them to take on a lot of experiential learning, hands on projects, internships, global immersion, but also taking on a lot of leadership experiences. In my role, I have the pleasure of working with the dean and faculty and students

and alumni and, business leaders and members of our community to really think about how we can collectively work together to make a positive change. And then as I've gone through my academic year, the big change for us has been AI. And the way that the school has been resilient to this change

has been shown in the way that they reacted proactively they didn't shy away from AI. I think, the value of USF to the alumni and to the community really is in the future is about continuous learning.