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[Identification of item], Fuqua School of Business Reference Collection, University Archives, Duke University.
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Encoded by Josh Larkin Rowley, February 2011
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In 1968, the University's Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a Graduate School of Business Administration and the award of the M.B.A degree. The School opened in the fall of 1970, the last of the schools James B. Duke requested that the University include. In 1980, John Brooks Fuqua, Atlanta entrepreneur and philanthropist, endowed the school with $10 million and it was renamed in his honor. Deans have been Louis D. Volpp, 1970-1973; Danny Laughhun, 1973-1974; Tom Keller, 1974-1995; Rex Adams, 1995-2001; Douglas Breeden, 2001-2007; and Blair Sheppard, 2007-
The collection contains files of memoranda, clippings, and other printed materials about the origins, programs and administration of the Fuqua School of Business.