UIC bolsters biz; Dean seeks to improve B-school's standing.(Brief Article)

Crain's Chicago Business, December, 2001 by Hinz, Greg

A competitor calls it ``the sleeping giant,'' known for its potential rather than its past. But the giant is stirring. After three decades of modest and unheralded success, the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago is in the early stages of a major drive to ramp up both its record and its reputation.

Already the largest single B-school in the Chicago area, with 800 graduate and 2,500 undergraduate students, the college has boosted its budget 56% in four years, and is about to launch a campaign to build a $55-million home on UIC's West Side campus. A school that didn't even offer graduate courses until 1983 now aims to recruit a Nobel laureate for its faculty, and is moving up fast in one closely watched national...

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