The Fundraiser
The 31st Annual Barney Ford Diversity Scholarship Fundraiser
Join us as we celebrate the 31st Annual Barney Ford Diversity Scholarship Fundraiser, organized by current MBA students at Leeds School of Business. This event brings together MBA alumni, faculty and staff, current MBA students, and friends of the program—all with the common goal of increasing scholarship funds for students and improving diversity at Leeds. The fundraiser is cocktail-attire-optional, and will include silent and live auctions. Proceeds help fund student scholarships, with the overall goal of strengthening diversity in the MBA program and contributing to the strong sense of community we work hard to achieve.
Boulder is taking proactive actions to minimize opportunities for the transmission of COVID-19 within our community. More details will be shared at a later date. Please direct any questions to BarneyFordDiversity@colorado.edu.
Information on the event will also be avaliable on the Facebook Event and on our Facebook Page.
Tickets are on sale now!
Guest Speakers
The esteemed Dean Vijay Khatri
Vijay Khatri serves as the Tandean Rustandy Endowed Dean of the Leeds School of Business. Khatri holds the first named endowed deanship at Boulder, supported by a $5 million gift by Tandean Rustandy.
Khatri previously served as the executive associate dean for strategy, innovation and technology at Indiana University Bloomington’s Kelley School of Business, where he spearheaded Kelley’s strategic initiatives, integrates Kelley’s and the university’s global education initiatives, and spearheads innovations in schoolwide processes, including the underlying systems for those processes.
“The Leeds School of Business is known worldwide as a vibrant learning organization for creating impactful research and developing transformational leaders,” Khatri said. “I am honored to have the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of the remarkable leaders whose work has made Leeds a leading national school of business and a center of innovation. This is truly the opportunity of a lifetime.”
As an academic leader, Khatri has a strong record of achievement in student success; research and scholarship; diversity, equity and inclusion; and community engagement. Khatri’s professional expertise focuses on the information economy and spans design, management, governance and use—through data analytics—of data repositories.