The Round 3 deadline at UCLA Anderson School of Management is just around the corner on March 17th, so if you’d like the opportunity for some virtual “face time” with Mae Jennifer Shores, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid, here’s your chance.

A webinar will take place Thursday, March 11th from 5 to 6 PM (PST). Join in to learn the finer points of the UCLA Anderson MBA program, and get all your last-minute questions answered regarding what admissions officers look for in successful MBA applicants.

Register for the UCLA Anderson online information session here.

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The University of Warwick in the UK has appointed Mark P. Taylor as the new dean of Warwick Business School, the school announced yesterday. Taylor will replace Howard Thomas, who left the school earlier this year to become dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at the Singapore Management University.

Taylor’s credentials come from both academia and the business and policy worlds. He has held a professorship in international finance at Warwick since 1999, although for the last four years he has been on leave from Warwick and working as a Managing Director at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, where he led the European arm of the Global Market Strategies Group, a large global macro investment fund.

It is this experience in the worlds of business, regulation and academia that Taylor believes will be the hallmark of his deanship, he tells the Financial Times. “Often people think that to be business relevant you have to water down the academic worth,” he points out. “You don’t.”

Professor Taylor will take up his post at the start of the Summer Term.

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Kellogg School of Management will host a premiere women’s leadership event the weekend of April 16-17, 2010, designed to increase the number of qualified women who apply to business school.

As a joint initiative between the Women’s Business Association (WBA) and the Kellogg Admissions Office, the 2010 Women’s Leadership Workshop serves as an introduction for high-potential women early in their career as to how an MBA contributes to accelerated leadership development and broadens career options.

The event targets women in industries and functions where an MBA may not be considered part of the traditional career path. Nonetheless, these women could have the background and skills to succeed at a top MBA program and could greatly benefit from the toolkit that an MBA provides.

For more information about this event, the schedule of activities, and how to register, click here.

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With recruiter visits to campus down an estimated 20% in the last year, business schools have gotten creative when it comes to putting students in contact with potential employers.

In a piece published Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal’s Diana Middleton looks at how B-schools today are doing everything from comping hotel rooms for recruiters, to building video-equipped studios on campus for remote interviews, to teaming up with other schools to fly students to meet hiring managers in order to help students land jobs.

Numerous schools have adopted video technology, which ranges from free Skype, which just requires a simple Web cam, to sophisticated teleconferencing equipment that costs upward of $6,000.

Chicago Booth School of Business and the Wharton School have gotten on board in an effort to get their students seen by as many recruiters as possible by subscribing to InterviewStream, a video-streaming firm that charges $2,500 to $4,000 a year for its service, Middleton reports.

The service allows recruiters to either interview candidates live or weed out applicants using pre-programmed screening questions candidates have to answer by video, among other things.

According to WSJ, InterviewStream counts more than 50 MBA programs as clients, and sales have increased more than 200% in the past year, says Randy Bitting, chief executive officer and co-founder. “With this technology, [recruiters] don’t have to stick to local schools,” says Bitting. “They can cherry-pick without worrying about travel costs or time-zone differences.”

Meanwhile, other schools are trying out recruiting road trips. Tuck School of Business will foot the bill for 50 students to travel to Boston and San Francisco to meet with companies. Students from Washington University traveled on “cross-country road shows” between semesters in January to different U.S. cities to meet with company recruiters.

No matter which strategies B-schools employ, it’s a win-win for both students and recruiters, who call it a great way to develop their talent pipeline with candidates they may not have gotten to see in person.

Read more about non-campus recruiting here.

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