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Order Both and Save! e zasy-to-us- BLOCKS Templates in r ir of Wisconsin were the first schools to join the Consortium Others soon followed: the University of Rochester and University of Southern California in 1968 the University of North Carolina in 1973 the University of Michigan in 1983 New York University in 1984 the University of Texas in 1985 The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management might never have begun without Sterling Schoen a white professor at Washington University's business school He started the program in 1966 Schoen who was honored at the conference in Austin says its impetus came from a survey which showed that out of 12000 MBA students in the country less than 50 were black "I knew the MBA degree was very important in getting people into business careers" says Schoen now 73 and retired "Conditions were so bad for minorities at the time that I felt if we could take the elite in the black communities and start them on business careers we would have a chance of really making a difference" That idea doesn't seem so revolutionary today But back in the 1960s after years of segregation and discrimination blacks needed to be persuaded that business offered career opportunities and that it was worth taking two years Out of one's life to study for an MBA The program would also test the good faith of many businessmen who were saying "We will hire qualified blacks but we can't find blacks who meet the qualifications" James Jackson now the vice president of operations at Taco Bell was among the first class of students to participate in the Consortium He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in 1967 Jackson is focused controlled a man with drive and These qualities undoubtedly ce helped him earn his MBA degree Almost half of the 22 students in that first class dropped out Some felt their professors didn't help At times reports Wallace Jones the Consortium director they heard what they regarded as hostile or racist remarks and their participation in class was belittled James Jackson says many of the corporate recruiters were also terribly naïve "Everyone wanted one of these black MBAs" he recalls adding that companies often didn't know what to do with them once they were hired At first the Consortium sought only black men for the degrees reflecting the fact that before the women's movement women in general were not being groomed for careers in business It wasn't until the 1970s that the Consortium admitted women along with Mexican-AmericaCubans Puerto Ricans Dominicans and American Indians ns Carol Hillsman Sagers makes it clear that business wasn't something her father a steel-mi- ll worker or her mother a domestic talked about with her and her brothers and sisters when they were growing up on the South Side of Chicago If anything her dreams centered on becoming a writer buying beautiful clothes and living in downtown Chicago Then she learned about the Consortium and won a fellowship and living stipend to attend the graduate business school at Washington University When she graduated in 1981 she had an MBA degree in one hand and eight job offers in the other "I've come a long way" says Sagers now 34 and the group marketing manager for product planning and development at Soft Sheen Products Co "I did things that a lot of my friends didn't because I heard about the Consortium and followed up on it" continued PAGE 311 ' JANUARY 5 1932 PRAM EWAME |