Centers
Cintas Institute for Business Ethics at Xavier
The Cintas Center focuses on helping students and other Xavier stakeholders recognize and deal with ethical and values-related issues in the workplace. To that end, the center designs corporate workshops, stages continuing education sessions, sponsors guest lectures and conducts an annual ethics institute that features leading corporate executives, ethics officers, and legislative and judicial officials. The center also:
- Serves as a resource for the local, regional and national business communities.
- Enables students to choose to do the hard right, as opposed to the easy wrong.
- Helps faculty increase their exposure and confidence in the areas of business ethics and social responsibility.
Sedler Family Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Sedler Center develops entrepreneurial leaders who seek opportunities, act resourcefully, think creatively and lead ethically to make a difference in their organizations in the world. Its accomplishments include:
- A ranking of No. 24 among the most entrepreneurial campuses in America by The Princeton Review.
- An internationally recognized faculty with established reputations for research and teaching.
- An entrepreneurship major for business students and a minor for business and non-business students.
- A student learning lab at the Hamilton County Business Center, which provides startup space and contact with entrepreneurs.
- Six student-managed-and-operated businesses on campus.
Fifth Third Trading Center
The Fifth Third Trading Center is a student-managed facility containing state-of-the-art technology for the analysis of stocks and securities as well as for portfolio management. It also offers hands-on, practical training for students and the business community.
Center for International Business
The Center for International Business builds international relationships with multi-national corporations and educational institutions that will allow for unique opportunities for WCB students and faculty. Specifically the center provides expertise and resources to facilitate the offering of innovative and specialized international study programs and internship opportunities that would enhance our students' academic and professional development. The programs are designed to equip the students with a global mindset, sensitivity, and real-world problem-solving capabilities that would help them become valuable assets to the organizations that they would serve upon graduation.Center for the Study of the American Dream
The significance of studying, understanding and preserving the American Dream is that while it defines aspirations, it also drives public attitudes and decisions. There are policy and social consequences to the dreams dreamed as there have always been. Our mission is both to define the American Dream and to help inspire the public imagination in our changing world to create new and better possibilities.
The Center for the Study of the American Dream generates significant original research and suvey data on the American Dream. It serves as an information clearinghouse for the American Dream. It engages in dialogue and instruction in the classroom and in the community, and it will promote the American Dream in every way possible.