Mindfulness is part of business at Bentley.A FEW YEARS AGO, PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT Joseph Weiss started seeing the magic that happens when business curriculum includes spirituality themes. His course "Life Calling and Career Strategies: The Spiritual Journey" asked students to deeply consider their purpose in life. The teaching veteran of 20-plus years then began incorporating contemplative methods like meditation and a module on every person's heroic journey into his MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration leadership course. Now, thanks to grant money awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies The American Council of Learned Societies, founded in 1919, is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight scholarly organizations. ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. , which is used to fund voluntary faculty workshops, Weiss can inspire colleagues at Bentley College Bentley College is located at 175 Forest Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, 10 miles west of Boston. Founded as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in 1968 and today is ranked 31 on Business Week's top 100 undergrad in Waltham, Mass., to try out various contemplative methods, such as reflection, centering prayer Centering prayer is a popular method of contemplative prayer, placing a strong emphasis on interior silence. Though most authors trace its roots to the contemplative prayer of the Desert Fathers of early Christian monasticism, to the Lectio Divina tradition of Benedictine , and meditation, during instruction. The initiative provides opportunities "for students to get in touch with their inner strengths and energies, and to express themselves in ways that are creative, innovative, and different," Weiss says. And, yes, there's room for that at a business school. "Our administration is very committed to the whole student and to enabling students to have both a liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. as well as a business background," he adds. Provost Robert Galliers says the college has a tradition of putting business into context by marbling marbling, in bookbinding, a process of coloring the sides, edges, or end papers of a book in a design that suggests the veins and mottles of marble. In tree marbling, as of tree calf bindings, the design suggests also the trunk and branches of a tree. global perspectives and business ethics throughout the curriculum. While the great majority of undergraduate students come to Bentley to major in a business discipline, 30 percent of faculty covers arts and sciences. And many students add a second major in one of those areas. From Weiss's workshops to Bentley's service learning program, which asks students to step back and reflect upon their community experiences, Galliers says it's all "part of this reflective approach we're trying to adopt." |
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