In a move that (sort of) matches Wharton’s recent announcement to provide ongoing executive education to its alumni, Haas has announced that its new alumni (Class of 2011 and later) will be eligible to attend any open-enrollment offering at Haas’s executive education center, within five years of graduation.
Recently Wharton made waves when it announced that all of its alumni will be able to attend “enrichment classes” every seven years, free of charge. We loved when that news hit in December, and we’ve been hoping that other top MBA programs would follow.
What is curious is that Haas will only offer two free days of executive education, that must be used within five years of graduation and if you graduated from Haas before 2011, you’re not eligible. We’re sure that at least some Haas administrators have been wringing their hands over a possible influx of recent alumni in the school’s executive education classes, but this strikes us as a somewhat timid toe in the water. Perhaps the school wants to see what the response rate is among alumni before possibly expanding the program.
While we would have like to have seen Haas go as far as Wharton, we certainly think that this announcement is better than no move at all. We cannot wait to see which business school is next to embrace the concept of lifelong learning in graduate management education.
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