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Krannert Graduate School of Management
Purdue University
Something Old ... Is Now Updated
With this issue, Krannert News has been transformed to Krannert Update. It seems apropos that this news¬ letter take on a new name and a new look in 1977 as the Krannert Gradu¬ ate School of Management enters its 20th year.
The school has grown by leaps and bounds since the first class of stu- _dents graduated in 1957 with a Mas-
\! of Science degree in management.
ie next issue of Update will feature a look at the past 20 years as remembered by faculty, staff, and alumni. You are invited to contribute by jotting down anecdotes, stories, or special memories from your asso¬ ciations with the school and sending them to the editor. Photos are also welcome, and will be returned if requested.
In addition, you may want to submit items about recent promotions, job changes, awards, and so on for the "Alumni Update" column.
Update will continue to be published quarterly by the Krannert Alumni Foundation and the Krannert Gradu¬ ate School of Management, Purdue University for alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the school.
IPRC Forms 15-Member Advisory Council
The Information Privacy Research Center (IPRC) added another dimen¬ sion this fall with the formation of a 15-member advisory council.
The council, at the invitation of Dean John S. Day, will advise and assist Jack L. Osborn, IPRC executive di¬ rector and the center staff in re¬ search topic identification and liaison with public and private sector organi¬ zations.
At its initial meeting, the council stressed the need for accurate and timely data describing in detail the behavioral, economic, and policy im¬ plications of proposed privacy legis¬ lation.
Advisory council members represent the following corporations and insti¬ tutions: Bendix Corporation, TRW Inc., IBM Corporation, Direct Mail/ Marketing Association, Brown Uni¬ versity, Procter and Gamble Company, General Motors, Rockwell Internation¬ al Corporation, Data Processing Man¬ agement Association, PPG Industries, Matthew Bender and Company, Inc., Equifax Inc., American Council on Education, Sears Roebuck and Com¬
pany, and Touche Ross and Company.
More Krannert Graduate School of Management staff and students are becoming involved with the IPRC. Working with the center in research and administration are Howard From¬ kin, program research manager and professor of administrative sciences; Anne Youngblood, administrative as¬ sistant; Michon Baldauf, secretary; Dick Woodman, Ph.D. student in ad¬ ministrative sciences; and Kathryn Akerhielm, M.S. student in manage¬ ment. Robert C. Goldstein, University of British Columbia, author of The Cost of Privacy, is economic research manager for IPRC.
Current research includes a compari¬ son of a West German law on privacy enacted December 1976 with the cur¬ rent U.S. Privacy Act of 1974 and proposed U.S. legislation and the West German law's implications for multi¬ national corporations. The center is undertaking a similar examination of French legislation.
In addition, IPRC is designing a sur¬ vey research project of the effect of proposed privacy legislation on small businesses, a project to study specific psychological aspects of privacy, and a tracking study of policy decision makers' attitudes and actions in regard to the privacy issue.
Purdue Fourth Among Top Ten l^ublic B-Schools
"The Cartter Report on the Leading Schools of Education, Law, and Business " published in the February 1977 issue of Change Maga¬ zine ranked Purdue University's manage¬ ment programs fourth, along with the Uni¬ versity of Michigan, among public schools surveyed. In a composite ranking of pub¬ lic and private schools, Purdue University was rated 13th.
Dean John Day commented that the report was one of the most valid of the recent business school surveys because it was based on evaluations by both representative faculty and deans. The survey of business schools included only the 51 Ph.D.-granting universities. Evaluations were based on re¬ sponses to faculty quality and educational attractiveness of each school.