ABSTRACT
Systems; Thriving versus survival; Regeneration; Stewardship. These constructs were the foundations of the vision of our new business college from the start. And they ran (perhaps even continue to run) directly into long-standing traditions and understandings of the faculty and administration. This work shares the journey of proposing a new MS degree in Regenerative Finance and Economics and ultimately being told “no” by our institution. The work shares the process of gathering an increasingly larger set of stakeholders and building excitement for offering a truly distinct business degree that could graduate changemakers into the world who would be prepared to ask the right questions and put new perspectives, philosophies, and practices in play that could change the triple bottom line conversation. And it outlines us ultimately being asked to remove the proposal in the Anderson College of Business at Regis University, a Jesuit Catholic university, in Denver, Colorado. The chapter finally reflects on what could’ve been done differently to have this curriculum become the anchor of our college’s vision and future.
