By Alison Steinbach | Arizona Republic
Alumni are flocking to the Thunderbird School of Global Management’s high-tech campus in downtown Phoenix this week to mark the grand opening of the school’s new global headquarters.
Festivities include a 75th anniversary reunion, events throughout the week and the official opening and naming of the building Friday evening.
Thunderbird calls the headquarters “the most technologically advanced school in the world,” with tools for classroom collaboration on “touch tables,” language learning through virtual reality, global situations analysis and international communications and teaching.
The school’s new home embodies its rebirth from a school on the brink — with severe financial tumult and an alumni revolt — to a leading global management program after Arizona State University bought Thunderbird in 2014 and helped launch its revival.
