Good News for Barry University – and International MBA Students

March 23, Miami Shores, Florida – Barry University both extended and received good news. The University is opening a new double-degree MBA program to business students across the globe. In addition, Barry has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for more than 25,000 hours of community service.

Barry University’s Andreas School of Business is now offering students from across the globe the opportunity to earn a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Barry as well as one from their native country’s university in almost half the time it would take to do both separately.

The Double Degree program affords students the cultural experience and networking capabilities in two separate parts of the world through Barry’s partnerships with several universities worldwide. Students study two semesters in their native university and two semesters at Barry. Once their academic work is complete, students have the opportunity to work at a U.S. company, where they experience hands-on learning and training

Barry MBA students will also have the chance to study abroad and earn a degree from a partnering university through the Double Degree program.

Zuleima Bustamante, a student from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, is the first to participate in this new program. An industrial engineer with a minor in computer science, she is working on her MBA with a specialization in International Business at Barry.2

Zuleima Bustamante, a student from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, is the first participant in Barry’s new double-degree MBA program.

“I chose Barry for two reasons,” said Bustamante. “A strong program with capable professors was important to me on a professional level, and personally speaking, the fact that Barry’s tradition is founded on Catholic principles and ideals was just as important.”

For questions regarding the Double Degree program, please contact Paola Moreno, assistant dean of the School of Business, at 305-899-3531 or pmoreno@mail.barry.edu

Barry Named to Community Service Honor Roll

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the U.S. Department of Education have selected Barry University for the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which recognizes the University’s students, faculty members, and staff for their commitment to community service and service-learning.

Barry was admitted to the Honor Roll for contributing more than 25,000 service hours, primarily in the areas of education, social services and community development. The Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities.

During the 12-month period considered for this year’s recognition, more than 70 percent of Barry students participated in some form of community service, noted Glenn Bowen, director of Barry’s Center for Community Service Initiatives.

Psychology and sociology students made significant contributions through a special initiative in Liberty City, a neighborhood in Miami. As part of a senior capstone, psychology students engaged in service-learning projects with the Liberty City Community Revitalization Trust. The projects included teaching alphabet recognition and beginning reading to Haitian-American Head Start students; developing, scheduling, and publicizing a workshop for first-time home buyers; evaluating South Florida’s Workforce One employment program; reviewing a grant proposal to provide broadband and wireless services to Liberty City; and creating an asset map of the community.

For their part, sociology students evaluated the HIV/AIDS-related outreach services provided by Liberty City’s Mount Tabor Missionary BaptistChurch and formulated strategies for reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS in the community, where there were 8,690 adult cases.

In addition, the work done by Barry’s Institute for Community and Economic Development and the Community Learning Partnership of Greater Miami Shores contributed to Barry’s recognition on the Honor Roll.

“The Honor Roll schools should be proud of their work to elevate the role of service-learning on their campuses,” said Eduardo Ochoa, the U.S. Department of Education’s assistant secretary for postsecondary education. “Galvanizing their students to become involved in projects that address pressing concerns and enrich their academic experience has a lasting impact – both in the communities in which they work and on their own sense of purpose as citizens of the world.”

CNCS, which has administered the Honor Roll since 2006, admitted a total of 642 colleges and universities to this year’s list, which can be accessed at www.NationalService.gov/HonorRoll.

For information on the community service and the service-learning programs at Barry, visit www.barry.edu/service, or call 305-899-3696.

Barry University is a private, Catholic institution with a history of academic excellence in the Adrian Dominican tradition. Founded in 1940 in Miami, Florida, the University enrolls nearly 9,000 students and offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its nine academic schools and colleges, including Adult and Continuing Education; Business; Education; Human Performance and Leisure Science; Law; Podiatric Medicine; Social Work; Arts and Sciences; and Health Sciences.