HISTORY

An honors program specifically for business students was the longtime vision of former Dean Louis Pol and CBA faculty. Following financial gifts from the Virginia Pettengill Estate, Carl Mammel, and Dennis and Ruth Duffy, that dream began to take shape in summer 2014 with the hiring of the first director.

After nearly a year of developing programming and recruiting high school seniors, the director and faculty committee selected the first cohort of 20 incoming freshmen in spring 2015. Additional cohorts of 20 have been added every year, and the Academy has maintained a retention rate of more than 90 percent.

The first Scholars graduated from the College of Business Administration in December 2018.