<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/westmont-news/westmont-pepperdine-launch-new-partnership.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>06/03/2015</pubDate><title>Westmont, Pepperdine Launch New Partnership</title><excerpt>Westmont College and Pepperdine University today announced an agreement to offer a new program in shared space in downtown Santa Barbara. Beginning in fall 2015, Westmont Downtown, a new center in the Hutton Parker Foundation Building in Santa Barbara, will host a Santa Barbara-based, two-year, part-time MBA program through the nationally ranked Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management. Westmont Downtown also offers Westmont programs and classes in social entrepreneurship, capital entrepreneurship, and leadership and management as well as internships with local businesses and organizations.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2015/03/30536680cf854a03bd6c0829fb3f9b7d-505x487.jpg" alt="The Hutton Parker Foundation Building in downtown Santa Barbara"/>
        </image><caption>The Hutton Parker Foundation Building in downtown Santa Barbara</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>