The Dallas Morning News published a story Wednesday on RiseSmart’s partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas. Here’s an excerpt:

Business school graduates typically aim for high-paying dream jobs, but those are scarce today. Job competition is fierce. The nation has shed 5.7 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007, including senior management jobs.

Help is on the way for students in the Executive Master of Business Administration program at the University of Texas at Dallas. The school recently hired RiseSmart to provide Web-based job search and outplacement services to all of its Executive MBA students. The program has 92 students.

“Increasingly, career management services are becoming an important part of the Executive MBA program,” said David Springate, interim director of the program… The UTD-RiseSmart partnership is the first of its kind among EMBA programs. RiseSmart, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said it’s in talks with other EMBA programs, including two Texas schools.

Full story here.

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