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Postscript                                               A Good Night’s Sleep




             Despite his advanced age, Wash remained deeply concerned with and involved in AIM
             affairs as its Chairman Emeritus. AIM had named its School of Business after him.

             “As Chairman Emeritus, he rarely missed a meeting,” says Jikyeong. She remembers,
             how during meetings, he would just keep his head down, leaving the people around
             him to wonder what he was pondering. But then, he’d surprise everyone after a long
             silence to make a comment.


             Jikyeong recalls that at the last AIM Board of Trustees meeting that he attended on
             September 7, Wash exclaimed, “Finally, AIM is doing something I always wanted
             AIM to do!” He was commenting on AIM’s need to collaborate with institutions
             working in STEM (Science and Technology, Engineering, Math). He added that
             “I’ve been always telling AIM, you need to work with engineering schools… so
             finally I can rest.”


             Passionate, energetic, and acutely aware of the global business climate and the need
             for business schools to be responsive to its turns, Jikyeong is keen for AIM to consider
             multidisciplinary approaches to business and management education by looking for
             synergies between science and technology as well as other social sciences.


             In 2018, AIM set up a School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
             (SITE). “It houses our Master in Entrepreneurship program, the Master of Science in
             Innovation and Business, and the newest, the Master of Science in Data Science. This
             was a program Mr. SyCip really, really liked,” she reports. AIM’s data science program
             was the first in the country supported by a fast and powerful supercomputer donated
             by Acer from Taiwan. “Our data science graduate will have a mini-MBA in addition
             to a data science degree, and this kind of curriculum is not being offered anywhere
             else in the world,” she adds.


             AIM now has seven master’s programs and one PhD program. In 2020, it launched
             the PhD in Data Science, the first in the country. As a response to changing market
             needs, five out of the seven master’s programs are now being offered part-time. “With
             the full-time program, our international students range from about 20-30 percent.”
             Jikyeong hopes to raise it to 40 percent.








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