New M.B.A. Director Joins Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. – The Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University has a new director for its Master in Business Administration program whose experience in both the academic and corporate worlds – including two decades as an executive at Fortune 50 firms – magnify the program’s emphasis on “real world”experience.

New M.B.A. Director James Oldson was a vice president at B.A. Capital Corporation, a financial services arm of Bell Atlantic Corporation, for nearly a decade and, for 12 years, was manager of information systems acquisition and planning at Mobil Corporation. For 15 years, he held teaching and administrative posts at Washington, D.C.’s George Washington University, where he earlier earned a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Public Policy. He holds an M.B.A. from Louisiana Tech University and an undergraduate degree in accounting from Centenary College in Louisiana. A native of Hampton, Virginia, Oldson has lived in various parts of the south.

In addition to directing the M.B.A. program, Oldson has been named associate professor at the Brooklyn Campus’s School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences and will teach in the management sciences concentration.

“Long Island University’s M.B.A. program at the Brooklyn Campus reflects this school’s close proximity to Wall Street and a faculty with a versatile track record in academia and business,” says Oldson, adding, “I am very pleased to be part of a faculty with strong ‘real world experience’ and ties to one of the world’s greatest financial centers. Together, we can ensure that our students will be well-grounded in the disciplines of management, finance and information technologies and ready to take their rightful place with tomorrow’s business leaders.”

Some 1,100 students are enrolled in the school of business, which now marks its 50th anniversary as part of the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. .More than 30,000 students are enrolled at the University’s three residential and three regional campuses, including 12,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues, the Brooklyn Campus is minutes from Manhattan and convenient to all major bus and subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road.