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CBA Maintains Prestigious Accreditation
 The College of Business Administration at Cal Poly Pomona has maintained its business accreditation by AACSB International-The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Less than 5 percent of business schools worldwide have earned this distinguished hallmark of excellence in management education.
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Record-breaking Attendance at CBA Commencement Ceremony
 Record-breaking crowds descended onto Cal Poly Pomona on June 11 to celebrate the 55th annual Commencement ceremony for the College of Business Administration.
The 11,000 seats quickly filled for the 9 a.m. ceremony as family, friends and loved ones watched our graduates enter the next stage of their lives and prepare to make their mark on the world.
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Students Display Business Skills in New Web Reality Show  For a month, a select group of students applied their business skills in ways they never imagined. They were solving real business problems and interacting with executives and corporate recruiters all while being filmed by an aspiring director doing her first Web show.
After nine students had been told to "return to the classroom," Matthew Martin, an international business and marketing student, won the competition.
"It feels amazing," Martin says. "I entered this competition to get some career experience, network professionally and pump up my resume. I have achieved all of those goals and more."
Learn more about the competition. Business Complex Update  When Dean Richard Lapidus stood in front of the future home of the College of Business Administration a little more than a year ago, there was nothing but empty land.
Now, in just 15 months, the site has transformed. The 3-building complex is more than 60 percent complete, says Project Manager Chi Kwan Fong. Walls are being painted and windows are being installed as work continues with the mechanical, electrical and plumbing aspects of construction. Also, the complex's signature canopy - made of copper and cedar - is in the process of being installed. "These buildings are designed to complement our learn-by-doing approach to education," Dean Lapidus says. "I'm looking forward to the day when students will be able to take classes here." Construction is on track to be complete by February 2012. Then, the site will go through a series of safety tests and evaluations before faculty and staff move in during summer 2012. Students can begin taking classes in fall 2012. CBA has been planning for a new facility for more than a decade. Due to state budget woes, construction on the complex suffered setbacks, but university officials, state lawmakers and the CSU Chancellor's Office fought for its completion. The $30 million project is predominately funded by the voter-approved California Proposition 1D -- The Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 -- as well as donations from foundations and private donors. Marketing Class Connects Students with Entertainment Executives  Tatiana Guerrero may only be a student but for 45 minutes she had the eyes and ears of a movie producer, a director and a financier.
The executives wanted to know how Generation Y would promote two of their films and Guerrero, along with 29 other students in Marketing the Movies class, offered valuable suggestions. Read more. | 
Alumnus and former Cal Poly Pomona lecturer J. Douglas Ramsey ('82, finance, real estate and law) has pledged $1 million to the College of Business Administration in an effort to dramatically transform learn-by-doing opportunities for finance students. 
