KRANNERT GRADUATE SCHOOL of INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION PURDUE UNIVERSITY
FALL 1975
Prof. Earl Brooks, Cornell University, led the first session of the conference
Conference examines goal-setting, draws praise from participants
The 1975 Krannert Management De¬ velopment Conference cosponsored by the Krannert Graduate School of Indus¬ trial Administration and the Krannert Alumni Foundation drew participants from as far as Florida, California, and Texas. Response to the one and one-half day conference held on October 2 and 3 was highly favorable. A critique of the conference by the participants garnered the following comments:
"One of the most applicable and job related conferences we've had at Kran¬ nert—keep it up!
"I enjoyed the conference and it made me think more about my personal values and goals.
"Good presentation of an elusive, hard to quantify subject."
Prof. Earl Brooks, Cornell University,
^)d off "Goal Setting: Making It Work"
Wn Thursday afternoon with a fast-paced
session on "Goals and Action Plans For
You and Your Job." First day activities
wound up with a banquet Thursday eve¬
ning at the Holiday Inn-North. Rev. Joe Wick addressed the banquet-goers on the "Therapy of Laughter."
John Sherwood, professor of adminis¬ trative sciences, Krannert Graduate School, began Friday's activities with a session on "Goal Setting: The Ways We Respond to Conflict. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Each Response." Mid- morning the participants formed small groups to review material presented in the first two sessions and formulate questions for the afternoon session led by Frank Sterner, associate dean, Kran¬ nert Graduate School.
President Arthur G. Hansen, Purdue University, briefly commented on goal- setting after the luncheon held in the Purdue Memorial Union.
During the final session. Dean Sterner fielded questions resulting from the group discussions. He stressed commit¬ ment, simplicity of plan, and improve¬ ment—not perfection—as ways to make goal-setting work.
Officers discuss $2,000 loan fund
The Krannert Alumni Foundation board of directors met Thursday, October 2, at the Krannert Graduate School of In¬ dustrial Administration. Business in¬ cluded bylaw changes, administration of foundation funds, and future alumni conferences.
The topic receiving the most attention at the fall meeting was the administra¬ tion of the $2,000fund given to the Kran¬ nert Graduate School in 1975. After much discussion and a brief consultation with Business Administrator Charles E. Sharp, officers Richard Griner, Phillip Best, and Richard Stewart stipulated that the foun¬ dation make $2,000 available annually for interest-free loans to graduate stu¬ dents enrolled in the Krannert Graduate School.
From this fund, loans of up to $1,000 will be made to students recommended to the foundation by the Director of Pro¬ fessional Management Programs and the Director of Research and Graduate Ad¬ ministration. Students are to repay these interest-free loans to the Krannert Alumni Foundation within three years of gradua¬ tion.
Griner, Best, and Stewart reviewed the current membership and fund drive and voted to have alumni who contribute $100 or more to the foundation in 1975 receive a gold tone coaster/paperweight bearing the Krannert "K"—symbol of the school—and "Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Administration Purdue University."
In other business, the board of directors agreed to continue the annual alumni conference (this year renamed the Kran¬ nert Management Development Confer- continued on page 12