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| History |
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faculty members Dan E. Schendel, Wilbur G. Lewellen, Charles Lawrence,
Joseph C. Ullman, and Dean John S. Day established the Business Opportunity
Program (BOP) in April 1968 to increase diversity and give underrepresented
students access to a world-class Management education. The program was one
of the first and most successful of its kind at a major business school, and
the first at Purdue. In BOP's second year, Dean Day hired Dr. Cornell A. Bell to run the program. Under Dr. Bell’s leadership, BOP has grown into a nationally recognized program that recruits, enrolls, educates, and provides support for both undergraduate and graduate students pursuing Management careers. Since taking wing in 1968 with 11 undergraduate student participants, BOP has provided opportunities for more than 900 undergraduate and graduate students.  Dr.
Bell states, "When I think of Dean Day and the social environment in which he started the BOP program, I think
it takes a lot of courage to be a leader." About
the faculty members whose idealism was the impetus for BOP, Dr. Bell has one
word: "extraordinary."Dean John S. Day |
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