(Left to Right) Rady School Dean Robert Sullivan, Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Marsha Chandler and UCSD friend Ernest Rady.

"People may ask me, Why UCSD? Why this school? when I have been involved with so many other community organizations. The answer is simple: I know that any program launched here will be among the nation’s best."  This is how Ernest Rady explained why he and the Rady Family Foundation chose to provide a gift of $30 million to the start-up professional school that, at the time, had no faculty and no students.

Rady added. "It is very exciting to be a part of this management school from its initial planning efforts, and to help make this promising venture a reality for UCSD and the region. I felt it was important to become involved and to provide financial support because I am eager to see the school start training future business leaders. These students will go on to make a profound impact on the world, and it’s an honor to play a role in their educational development."

In fall 2005, less than two years after Rady’s leadership gift, the RadySchool of Management welcomed its first class of full-time MBA students. The schools full-time are joined by part-time Flex-MBA students. Its founding faculty, recruited from the nation’s leading business schools, is supported by three endowed faculty chairs. For more information on the RadySchool, visit www.management.ucsd.edu.