Friday, April 24, 2009

Fall 2009 In-residence

Earlier this week I received an email with the details on the 2009 Kelley Direct Public MBA Fall Co-hort. This is the one week in-residence required in years 1 and 2 of the program. It takes place in Bloomington, IN, and from the schedule appears to be quite a busy week.

Date for this years fall in-residence are August 8th - 14th, a full 7 days.

It looks like the week has 3 objectives. One is a 1.5 credit hour course, C511 - Organizational Development & Change which takes place throughout the week. Two is an orientation to IU, Kelley, and the program. Third is networking, as there is a Group dinner on arrival night with Dan Smith, dean of the Kelley School of Business, and Sheri Brown, a professor at Kelley. Also during the week, there are some socials and dinner nights.

We will be staying at the Indiana Memorial Union, which is located on campus and will be walking over to the Kelley school each morning.

There are a few open dinner nights during the week, so I have begun researching what the must eat restaurants are in Bloomington. According to Bloomingpedia, Nick's English Hut is a must eat, as well as the Irish Lion seems very appealing.

I've been monitoring flights to Indianapolis from Richmond, and just today the price on all flights seemed to jump $20.

4 comments:

  1. Try Kilroy's, Upstairs Pub, and Mother Bear's!!!

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  2. If you are adventerous, you can drive up to the Oliver winery, which is half way between Bloomington and Indianapolis.

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  3. Thanks for the advice! Hopefully the week isn't so busy that I can't get out to support these fine local establishments.

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  4. There will be a night at Nick's. Food was excellent. Play sink the Biz. Most other nights, our groups ate together so we could keep working. Plan on sleeping little, working a lot and learning a lot. The week in Feb. was well worth it.

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