Oh, hi. Good afternoon and welcome to the virtual visit session for the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. We're very excited to see, although I can't see you, but very nice to have all of you here today to join us to learn a little bit more about University of Delaware and Oliver College. This is your opportunity to ask questions. Find out more about the great things we have to offer. My name is Cheryl Klein. I'm the Deputy Dean of Lerner College of Business and Economics and I'm also a professor in the hospitality business and Sport Management Department. I'd like to congratulate all of you. You are in the class of 2020 five, I can't believe it. And you are obviously very smart because it's highly competitive to get into University of Delaware and the Lerner College. So I want to congratulate all of you on your acceptance and we look forward to seeing you here in the fall. Do housekeeping details. This is a webinar which means you can't see us. Excuse me, you can see us, but we can't see you. We will be using the Q and a function today. And if you find the black bar, the control per bar for Zoom. See there at the top or the bottom of your screen. If you find the Q and a area, click on that, you can ask questions and please feel free to ask questions now or anytime through this slide presentation. And we will address them as best we can if not during this session. We'll get back to later. But to make the most of your time here, please feel free to put those questions in the Q and a. At any time. It's my pleasure to introduce some of the people who will be joining us today and later on in the presentation, I'll introduce you to some of our students that will be joining us. It's my pleasure to have Joe Pompei joining me. She is the Director of the learner Career Services. She'll talk about all the great things that we do to support you to be successful with internships and careers. Dr. Andrea ever artists here also show will be handling the facilitating of the moderating function. And she is the associate dean of undergraduate programs. She is also Professor of MIS management information systems. We also have with us today Dr. Elizabeth Bailey. She is a Assistant Professor of Economics. She's also the Associate Chair and undergraduate advisor for the department. Also a congratulations Dr. Bailey. She was just recognized as the Outstanding Honors Professor at the University of Delaware. So she can also answer any questions you have about honors. And last but certainly not least, the woman that heads are advising program. And this is the advising program just for Lerner College. We have Marshall Rawlinson. She is a senior Assistant Dean for Student Services at learning. Once the agenda today, we're going to highlight some things about Lerner College. Give you some information about what we think is outstanding about our program. Joe Pompei will talk to you about career services and career placement and outstanding stats that we have. And then probably the best part of today's session is you'll get to meet our students and ask them questions. So be ready. Let's start. So we think there are five outstanding ideas about why Lerner College is a great place to get a business education of IUD is a great place to study. And number one is, we are focused on undergraduate education. So we have 17 thousand undergraduates at the University of Delaware. We have four hundred, ten hundred graduate students. And because of that, we focus on the undergraduate education experience. That means student clubs, activities, programs, career services are all focused on undergraduate education. So as you look at other universities and colleges, ask that question, where is their focus? Is it on graduate school or undergraduate? We do think that makes a difference. At learner. We have 3 thousand undergraduate students and we have 800 graduate students. Point number two, we have high quality programs and outstanding faculty. We are AACSB accredited business college. That is the gold standard for business colleges. We continually place in the top 10 percent of business colleges in AACSB, which is really something important to consider as you're looking at schools and quality of education. There are over 2000 programs and that we think are recognized quite a feat. Number three, we're large enough that we can offer you a variety of majors and minors. Most business schools have the traditional business majors and some have very few miners here. And Lerner College, we had 17 majors and 17 minors. And that means you can find a major that you can focus on in an area that is of interest to you. And not only that, a learner College, it is quite easy to double-major. And with your advisor, you can work toward having two majors or a major and 12 or three Myers and still graduate in four years. And we think that is one of the strengths of our program. Number 4, we're also small enough. So we're a very personal place. As you'll hear from the students. You'll get to know your faculty and your faculty will get to know you. Our class sizes also small. We do not have 1000 seat classes at the University of Delaware. And in fact, in Lerner College, many of our class sizes are 35 to 50 students. Our largest class is about 250 students. And you might only have one or two of those. Not only that, 95% of our classes are taught by our faculty, or by a handful of adjuncts that have expertise in their field. So your classes are not taught by graduate students. You'll want to look into that as you compare schools. Point number five is our location. We actually have the best of both worlds. So we're located in New York, Delaware. And if you haven't had a chance to visit, I know you saw a video and got to see our campus. But when you come see you in person, it is quite beautiful. And you'll see that we're a small town with a nice main street that goes down the middle with restaurants, shops. And it has that small town feel. Yet we're located near many large metropolitan areas like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. The Amtrak station is right on our campus. And we also have a bus service that takes students to New York or Philadelphia. So it's quite easy to go to metropolitan areas from campus. And I really do think it's the best of both worlds. Small college town and near, great and find metropolitan areas. So that's kind of what we think stands out about Lerner College and UD in a nutshell. And it is now my pleasure to turn the presentation over to Joe content. This is my favorite picture. Oops, went too fast. We'll go back. You don't even have to go that are like that. Pixel will just put it up there again. That's Joppa. And she's going to talk to you about learner to resources. So Joe taken away and I'll put it on the next slide. Thank you so much. Hi everyone. My name is Joe Pompei. I am the Director of the learner Career Services Center. So learner has his own career services center, which means myself and my team are highly focused on our business students and their success. I wanted to utilise. The first slide that I talked about here, relate to focus or highlight some of our adding more specialized programs. I mean, of course we are a full service Career Services Center offering everything from a to Z incur services and resume and figuring out your major and salary, negotiation and interviewing and LinkedIn and all of that stuff. But we also really try to offer opportunities for students to really build their network and to kind of build out their professional goals. One of those programs I'll quickly talk about is our roads for Wall Street program. We have a lot of a woman in New York City area. And we had, they happened to be in, in finance and I, so we really created this program to develop that pipeline to get our students up to New York City within finance, students who get into this program really, they apply and get into the program during their second semester. Sophomore years would be rising. Juniors looking for that internship the following year, they receive referrals, career coaching and technical training. We usually take a bus truck up to New York City and then we also have tons of alumni chats that we have throughout the spring and summer. So there's a really great program, especially aiming of finance is one of the largest majors on campus. We do have a large population from the New York, New Jersey area. So this was a great program that's sort of blended, that demands the career expert panel. This really came about, about a little over a year ago, obviously with COVID, we have amazing alarming and you'll see that all of these programs here are really just our alumni are wanting to give back and help our students succeed. We now have a services channel. We did, I believe 22 or 23 webinars this past year around topics around interviewing lessons from my career, the job and internship, search, imposter syndrome. I just wrapped up a webinar the other week around how recruiters use social media. And it was pretty cool. They got into all willy like the technical behind the scenes stuff that was, that, that is done and SEO. And it was really, it was really interesting to hear, um, and I think that the audience really took away a lot of concrete things that they could then do in their job search when they're utilizing social media platforms such as LinkedIn. They even talks about Facebook and Instagram. So again, we recorded all of all of those and we have them on our, on our channel or executive mentoring programs is one of my favorites. We pair students one-on-one with executives that are in a business field that the student has an interest in. What makes our mentoring program a little bit different than I would say other mentoring programs is that our mentors come with 10 or more years of progressive business experience. On average, I would say where most of our mentors are between 15 to 20 years. So our mentors help our students with their professional goals. You know, their professional growth. But I think the other thing that sets them apart is that our mentors are so far into their career that they're able to open doors for students. And we see this a lot, of course, you know, getting a job is not the goal of mentoring, right? The goal of mentoring is to build that relationship. But time and time again, we see students getting the doors open for them through their mentor to be able to get that internship or that job interview. The last program that we also created, many of these programs have been around for at least a year, if not are mentioned, probably been around for a number of years now. But our learner edge program was developed about 2.5 years ago. Obviously with COVID, we took in virtual this year. We have amazing board members. Whenever I talk about our alumni, we have amazing board members to our alumni are not a lot. And they really wanted to work with students. They didn't just want it comes to meetings, you know, to campus twice a year and meet with the dean. They really wanted to work in and help with students. And so we have three main boards at the Lerner College. And now all of those board members have volunteers on this learner edge program. When we were on campus, they were doing small group work with students on their resume and interviewing. Now that we're virtual, they are meeting one-on-one with students to help them prepped for interviews and update their resume. So it has been really amazing. And I think this sort of flight here really diagrams out of the support that you get when you come to you as a learner student. You get all these wonderful faculty and staff that are here, but you also get this, this network of alumni in UD community members that really are just providing this sort of community supports who help you succeed, whatever your goals really are. The next slide that I'll talk about Will is around or internships. We get a lot of questions around internships. For this past academic year. You can see here we had over 7 thousand internships, business related internships, if I can, that are posted in Handshake. Handshake is our database. If you've bends you other universities, I'm, I'm hoping that they're talking about Handshake. Handshake is now in about seven to 800 universities in the United States. But it's our database really for jobs, internships is where you can see events, you can interact with employers. It's a, it's a great, it's a great platform. So last year alone we had over 7 thousand internships. 80% of those were paid. So that's really great. And I always put this in here over 30 percent of those were in the New York, New Jersey area. We get a lot of students from the New York, New Jersey area. And I'm not saying that they're not that all the internships are up there. But I do get asked that question. Are there internships and jobs in New York or around that area? Absolutely. We have a good chunk that are in that area. Over 90 percent of our students typically graduate with at least one experiential learning activity. And I always like to add this in here, just sort of the reality of this past year. That's 7 thousand number that I'm sharing there. That also signifies a 12 percent decrease in the internship posting. Since COVID, I've been keeping track every month of the staff, the full-time in internships that are business related. So we are now really seen sort of run the others have this U-shape. I will really seen an uptick in post themed and employers wanting to interact and we are looking in the fall time to really be back where we were. I think a couple of years ago when the jobs were just did the job opportunities were so high. But again, 7 thousand That's a 12 percent decrease. That's still a lot of internships, lots of opportunity. So I just wanted to kinda put that all in perspective for you. Last slide is really about the success and the outcomes of career outcomes of our students. 95% of our students are employed are pursuing further education. We typically have an average starting salary of around mid-fifties. You can see our top employers there, those That's an alphabetical order or not in how many that they hire. To stats that I will point out on the left-hand side here, almost half of our students have accepted a job offer from an organization where they in turn, I think this is very important because right from your first year, you're going to be getting crapped and prepared and yeah, having opportunities thrown at you to network with employers who want to hire you. So we really do, I think such a great job in learner faculty and staff is, isn't just a one office job. This is a collective job of really encouraging students and preparing them to get internships. Because we know it's a good chance that will lead to a full-time job offer. The last that also over there, almost half of our students are typically graduate with two or more job offers. This can be a little stressful. I trying to figure out what, what's the decide upon. But you can see our students are getting hired. Not only are they getting hired, they're getting multiple options. So I think that's, that's pretty cool thing to see. I will just close with this career outcomes. They're always shared, I think, or I should say, I hope that they're always shared at the different universities that you're exploring. Please make sure that you do ask if you are getting statistics like this, what the knowledge rate is. You can see our knowledge rate is 86% were typically anywhere between 80 to 90 percent. For our knowledge rate, the national standard is 60 percent. So make sure that you ask universities what their knowledge rate is because the information that I'm sharing with you here is, is very reliable and very valid. And so I feel very confident when I share information about our career outcomes. Because we know where the majority of that we've had. We have first-hand knowledge. Where the students are, I'd be mop. So without I'm hungry our whole lot here, I'll answer any questions around professional development and career services. But thank you so much for your time today on Ciao. I'll I'll throw it back over to Dr. Kline. Thank you, Jill so much. And I do want to re-emphasize that Joe Pompei and her team just focus on learner students. That is an addition to University of Delaware Career Services. So you actually as a student, have two separate Career Services Office and help you to be successful with your internships and careers. So thank you very much. Appreciate it. Next, my favorite part of today's session is, it is my pleasure to introduce our student panel. And our student panel is here to answer your questions. So again, keep those questions coming in the Q and a. And we'll start with introducing our first student. And I'll ask Matt to join me mat Kevin Steen, Please. Come on and tell us a little bit about yourself. Hi everyone. My name is mad. I'm a senior here at UT. I'm from Alan, tiny Jersey, which is a really small town in central Jersey. So we have any Jersey people are central Jersey people. Hello. I'm a marketing manager, double-major, and then some my things that I've been part of on campus. I did get the opportunity to study abroad last winter in Italy. And I'm involved in one of the professional business for trees on Canvas where I was the vice president tree service. And I've had two internships with the UDF analytics department, which is right on campus and currently still do some work with them as well. So looking forward to answering your questions and glad to see you guys here. Thank you, Matt. Now Alisa Rotman. Hi, welcome. And please tell us a little bit about yourself. Thank you. I'm Alicia. I am from Canada squared, Pennsylvania, so not too far. And my major is International Business and I'm minoring in French. I'm currently a junior. And then I studied abroad in Rome, Italy for the fall semester in 2018. And as for what I do on campus, I am a part of the women's rowing team here. That's Division 1. I'm also, you know, I'm here, I'm a learner ambassador and I am a Rhodes Scholars committee chair, and I am in the learner executive mentor program. Great. Thank you, Alicia. Now last but certainly not least, please. Welcome Kaitlyn, Toby, own Tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah. Hi everyone. My name is Kaitlyn. I'm from New York and I'm an entrepreneurship and management information systems have a major, and I'm a junior. I'm something I do on campus. I'm the Lead Ambassador for the horn entrepreneurship program and also a peer mentor for the entrepreneurship program. I'm a teaching assistant for intro introduction to entrepreneurship. I'm a member of PyPy defy and a member of the private market club. Great. Thank you. And I see we already have some great questions that are being posted in Q and a. Keep them coming. And also, if you're interested in a certain major, just give you one type in the major that you might want to hear more about. Again, just take the major in the Q and a will be happy to talk more about majors that you're more interested in because we do have 17. So there's a lot we can talk about. I'm going to stop sharing the screen so that you can see everybody really well. And there's a great question here. And I think it should go to Matt. How is it balancing to business majors? Did you find it manageable? You have double-major. How did you do it in and first of all, how did you get into your double-major then how are you balancing that work? That sure. So balancing a double-major, I think is really manageable and really easy. A lot of people do take when our classes, because we have that extended session. And to do a double major, you would just have to take maybe a winner class or two, and it's really manageable. And a lot of the core classes are also offered over winter session. So I took winter session my sophomore year and my junior year where I was able to study abroad. So it's able to get a study abroad experience, do a double-major, and graduate on time. And something you need for me is I actually hit 150 credits throughout my four years, which is really the equivalent of five years. I'm doing classes, so I was easily able to him I double major requirement in my four years and go a little bit beyond as well. Super manageable. It's a lot about time management, but the professors are really willing to work with you and a lot of other students are double majors to, I think nearly all my friends are double majors with accounting and finance or things like that. So super manageable for me. I came in as a sport manager major first, but wasn't really sure exactly what I wanted to do. So adding my working major later on as a software and it's been a great decision and getting experienced on a variety of different classes of business topics. Great. Thanks mount. Now Caitlin, you're also a double-major and you have two different majors about can you tell us about your experience? Yeah. One of my favorite things about learner honestly is the flexibility and found manageable. It is up to majors. I apply to you D'Esposito declared. And then on my decision day, I ax I actually applied for the entrepreneurship major. And so I came into the school as an entrepreneurship major and then my first semester I applied to be a double major with finance. And I did that for a couple semesters and I just realized that it wasn't for me. So my second semester, sophomore year, I decided job, the finance major and become a Management Information Systems major. And even though it took me quite a while to figure out what exactly I wanted to do and what exactly I wanted to major in. I'm still completely completely on track to graduate in four years. It didn't set me back at all. Now, I'm happy with my tomatoes and it's completely intuitively, totally manageable. Wonderful. Thanks. Just to keep on that major trend. Someone asked, how did you decide on your double-major or what major and a leash. I was wondering if you could tell us how did you decide to become an international business nature? Well, for me, I knew I knew generally that I was interested in business. But like, it's hard to figure out what you want to do when you're 18. So I just kind of thought through like, what am I passionate about? And I think that languages are super cool and I really like to travel. So I thought that doing international business would be a good way to combine my passion for learning languages. You know, getting that minor in French and hopefully I'll be fluent. And to kinda hook, we'll end up at in a multinational corporation where. And I can go to different locations and just be able to feel a little bit of that we're going at the same time. So you were able to combine your passion and your major, which I think is awesome. Now we have a wonderful course that we lovingly call Bua D1 10. And it's actually a course called fundamentals in business and all of our students take it their freshman year. And Caitlin, I was wonder if you could tell us how did Bua D 110 help you to determine what major to take or what you might like and what you might not like. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah. So I mean, as we said before, there are 17 majors in college and that could be a lot to look through and decide which one you think might be best for you. But your first semester, freshman year, you'll take BYD 110 and they'll go through every single major in college and just give you a brief description about it and see that. And you'll be able to see whether or not you think that it might be for you and your first few years as Warner major, you'll take a bunch of basic classes and a lot of these majors allow also really help you decide what kind of classes that you like better. And we're kind of major that you might want to major in instead of. Great. Thank you. And Matt, you also to be UID 110 fundamentals of business. What were some of the things that you learned in there? And I think you also did a pitch competition. Can you talk about some of the experiences you have in that class? Sure. So it's a really awesome class because you're all freshmen in there together. So you get to meet a lot of friends in there as well who might have a slightly different major than U2, which gives you opportunity to learn about their major and also get your interests there as well. We did have a pitch competition, so my freshman year, one of the big projects is you're partnered with the group, I think, for other students and you have to come up with unique product idea and develop kind of a pitch for it. And then I believe there's like a winner for each class. And then you go on to kind of a learner wide pitch competition. It's actually ironic because my group was kind of the winner in my class. So we gotta go on to the full pitch competition. And one of the kids in my group actually started up this business for real right afterwards. He doesn't run it anymore, but just being able to connect with him and stay connected with them. Pass my freshman year and see how he kinda grew this business a little bit, was really interesting and a really great experience. And although I'm not in entrepreneurship major, minor, just getting that experience actually did inspire me to take a few more classes are electives for a marketing major that elites entrepreneurship as well. Great, Thank you. I think I remembered you won that competition was a lot of fun. We have a great question here about if you're interested pursuing law school, and I think Dr. ever Agua answer it in more detail. But just briefly, we do have a lot of students that go on to law school. And at the University of Delaware, we have concentration for people that are pre-law and a specific advisor that helps guide you for that. We also have great business law faculty that can help you with that. So it's something that many students consider and go on to do. And it's very easy to do EDU Day, right? We have, Emma is interested in financial planning and wealth management major. How does that compare to finance? And they are both in the financial area. There are two majors in the same department. Finance students focus on financial markets. You know, if you want to go to Wall Street, that would be a major that you might be interested in if you want to go into trading and stocks, we actually have a student club called the blue hand Investment Club. Many of those students are finance majors, but it's open to all learners students. Those students actually manage about $3 million of the university's endowment. Present their plan to the Board of Trustees of the university. So it's a real experience. It's not just play money. And they had beat the S&P 500 in the last three years there, they're ahead of the S and P. And those finance students tend to enjoy that, spend a lot of time. And I felt sad or trading lab, the students to do financial planning. They actually want to be a financial planner. And I believe Kaitlyn, you are having an internship in that area rate with Ameriprise, could you now though you were not that major, you are doing that and that's the lovely thing about the business college. You can major in different things and have jobs in different areas, but always related to business. Galen, tell us what type of things you're doing because that is what someone would do if they were in our financial planning and wealth management. Yeah. So entering at Ameriprise financials on I just always thought about financial planning the back my mind. So I just figured this intercept would be a good opportunity to be how I feel about it. I like it. We do a lot of meaning with Client and actually building their financial plan. It's a lot of insurance plans are a lot of insurance. And yeah, it's a lot of I I deal with a lot of past client files and dealing with how they want to structure their upcoming financial plan throughout the years. One thing I learned from this internship is that financial planning is it for me? Because a lot of being a very outgoing person, having to deal with your client more personally. You have to a lot of not so much just worrying about the financial plan, but like keeping up with their lives, like calling them to stay updated on their lives. And yeah, it's just a lot of very being very personal with their clients, which is great for some people. But for me personally, I don't think that's something that I want a trivial the future. And k, when we call that a successful internship, because one of the things we hope students learn when they do internships is what do you like? What don't you like? So getting that experience is very helpful to guide you in your life. So I would call that a successful internship. But if someone is interested in doing that, financial planning and wealth management is the major for you. The gentleman who is the head of that program is actually a certified financial planner. He does set up the students who they can sit for the first part of the exam by the time they're ready to graduate. And most of students do internships in that field. I also want to mention that we have a trust management minor and many students minor in that, who are interested in financial planning and wealth management. Those are people that want to do financial planning and wealth management for the top percentage of the population. So $25 million or more. All those students get an internship in that field and are highly marketable. And yes, some of the students actually go on to law school as well. We are the one of two universities in the country that have a trust management minor. So Caitlin, thanks for sharing your experience. We have a lot of good questions here. Let's see. Let's talk about study abroad. And we happen to have two students that have done study abroad, both in Italy that I believe you did a winter session study abroad in Italy, Zach, correct. Because you talk a little bit about that, the classes and also the experience. And then we also are fortunate to have a world scholar either. So we'll talk about that. Yeah, sure. So I think a great advantage of IUDs having the winter session, which is about five weeks long and being able to study abroad there with UT professors who run the trip. So my two classes that I took were Business rating and international finance. And while they were little outside of my major, I think it's an advantage being in the business schools, being able to learn about different topics that might not be, in my instance, sport management or marketing related internationally. And it was really awesome experience. It was a time my life, we went around Italy for a month, learning from different local business leaders. You met people, local banks, and hearing how some of Italy's policies or things with the recession, impact of bad things they run and cultural differences. But also got the opportunity to just travel across the country. Went to Florence, Rome, Venice, sienna, Bolonia, all the big cities in Italy. And it was a lot of fun and having a width UD professors and just UT students on the trip, I think made it even more special and was a big-time advantage of the winter session. Great. Thank you. Now this just in a special program called the World Scholars Program. Alisha, could you tell us how that works? And then you are also in Rome too for that program. Although that program send students to Madrid, Spain, Athens, Greece, and often Zealand. Alicia, tell us about the world scholars and your experience. So the world Scholars Program is a little bit more of a, it's a four year program. So it's not like you just go abroad one for them, that's it. You leave it behind. They describe it as like a more comprehensive four-year program where so in your freshman year, your first semester, you go abroad. As I did, I went to Rome and come back. You get kind of reintegrated into campus. And I'm the following fall and spring, you'll be living in the eye health. And that's called the International Health. Where you get to live with the International, some of the international students who opt to live in dorms. And, you know, I mean, really good friends. My neighbor was from Russia And, you know, we we were good friends. And then after that, your junior year. Ideally, I would have been in Paris, France this past fall. But with COVID obviously, that didn't work out. Then usually with the junior year, that's more of you typically have like some research or some community service that you're specifically trying to accomplish when you go. And then in your senior year, you have a gate. Kind of I forget what it's called. This is a symposium. And that's kind of where you present the culmination of everything you've learned. And just kind of like, it's kinda like a little thesis. But all through out that there's a lot of opportunities to kind of, you know, learn how to be a community leader like I am. Or some people like they'll start interviewing prospective Rhodes Scholars in their junior or senior year. So you really get to be involved in that process. And as for going to Rome for a full semester, I am so grateful for that experience. It was just really incredible and it taught me a lot about myself and also just about the world. I picked up a little bit of Italian, but not much. And you get a little, a lot more freedom than you do with it during the winter, especially abroad. So it's a lot more independent. It's a little bit more relying on yourself, but you make great friends with the people that you go with. And I'm the credits transferred pretty much seamlessly. There's really no effort on my part there. And thank you, Alicia. And the world Scholars Program is an exchange program. So the tuition is the same as if you were in New York. Both Matt and Alicia talked about winter session. And we offer winter session classes. They start after New Year's and they end usually the first week in February. And it's quite easy for students to do study abroad. We have, I think, no, in normal times we have more business school students in Australia and New Zealand in winter session, then we do taking classes in New York because that's an extremely popular place to go. And we also offer internships in study abroad. In particular is an internship that's taught in Australia and New Zealand in summer, excuse me, a winter session and in the spring. And they're taught by Udi faculty and then the students to their internships in Australia and New Zealand and Singapore and that part of the world. So that's just one example of another study abroad. My son is also in the world scholars, and he's a restaurant management minor. And is first semester we spent around just like Alicia. And this fall, he is actually going to Switzerland and he'll be taking his courses that meet the requirements for the minor in restaurant management. So I highly recommend if you get a chance to do study abroad, take advantage of it. And we even have a study abroad program that is taught and spring semester. And over spring break, you're on a cruise because the course is called cruise ship management. So there's a lot of ways to do that. We have a great question here from Brian. Brian with the why about our entrepreneurship program and opportunities for students to start businesses. And also we have a lot of programs where students meet CEOs. Startup company managers. And we are fortunate to have Caitlin Here. She's an entrepreneurship major. Caitlin, could you tell us what are those things you do with a horn program and how can students start businesses in our entrepreneurship majors, minors, and certificate programs? Yeah, So there's so many programs that point offers if you want to start your own startup. So one of the first one to the biggest ones is called venture on. Typically, with venture on, typically you would apply to it, but lately because of COVID times, everyone is welcome. You don't even have to be aware to major. Every single person in the university is welcome. So you can come in, apply to this program with whatever idea you have. And the faculty and all the other students who are also working on a startup will be there to help you and support you. When building a startup, you also get funding from the program. So if you want to maybe fly out to a conference on the other side of the country to network with people and whatever feel about your ability, your startup. And then we can find that for you and you'll be able to go free of cost. So that's a really awesome program because the person who runs anything that's meant, he is a very experienced entrepreneur. He is always there to help you. He goes out if it is way above and beyond to help you your startup. We also have kitsch parties once a semester where you don't even need to have a developed idea. It could just be something that you just thought of and you can pitch it to a panel of judges and you have the chance to win some money and to help you with that startup as well. We also have something called hash, which is basically a much bigger version of a party. There is fixed finalists. Britain had three of which are pre-revenue track and then three of which are put revenue check. And with that the same thing, It's the big pitch party and you can win a lot of, lot of funding your startup with an hatch. And then the last thing that I wanna talk about is called Summer Founders, which is a summer program that you can work on your startup and you'll get paid to do so. So I know a lot of people can't really afford to take us somewhere off of working or doing an internship. But that basically is an internship. You're going to get paid to work and develop your startup and get all the resources and support that you need from all the horn faculty. Okay, with that, It's great. Thank you. Sorry. That's not what our entrepreneurship program does is just amazing. And I I forgot to mention, I want to make sure that I do. Warren entrepreneurship program is ranked in the top 20 entrepreneurship programs in the country. So whether you're a major, a minor, or you just want a certificate program, There's lots of opportunities to get involved with started. So you did a great job, Caitlin. Thank you. Now Brian with an I am Brian with a y, want to know what else do you do outside of the classroom? And how do you manage your coursework? And all those fun things you do on Main Street and clubs and sport activities. Who would like to start? And I'll have all of the answer that questions like, what do you do outside of class and that, and how do you balance it? We're going to jump in. Yeah, I can go first. So for me, one of the big things I'm involved with is one of the professional bit street journeys, Delta Sigma Pi. So I've been there since I was second semester sophomore and it's been a great experience, are able to network with a lot of other business students, but also it's a really great social opportunity to, to make smear best friends and have friends in all your classes and things like that. And I joined while I was doing an internship on campus and with a double-major. So it's definitely really easy, impossible to get involved with a lot of awesome things on campus while still doing a double major and even entering, inserting on campus as well. I've also helped work and the athletic department before. So I've done social media and communications for them. So I've been on the field for some of the football games and across games doing Instagram accounts, which was a lot of fun. And just helping out with a variety of projects that they're working on to. And really I think the newer community is great. There's so many things to do in the area. There's a lot of great trails and running spots just the other night, me and if some of my friends did a yoga session at the reservoir, which is only five minutes away from campus. So a lot of opportunities to get involved and really great areas on campus. That then with your coursework, it's super manageable. All your other students want to find ways to connect as well outside of classes. And you're able to find those like-minded groups and make a lot of great friends and have a lot of awesome times with him as well. Thank you. Kaitlyn or Alicia? She's fast on the bottom there. You want to go next? Sure. So it's a little bit different. As a student athlete, there is a lot more structuring your time. Just because practice takes up about 20 hours of your week and then you also have class, which, you know. My dad told me when I went into college that I should look at school as a full-time job. So I do try to carve out, you know, they're good, you know, maybe nine to five or nine to four words, class and homework. Um, and also making sure that I'm able to take care of the rest of my life. But in terms of like what I do for fun, I mean, kinda tough practice is pretty much my fun. But I also like to do movie nights with my friends or I'm really into cooking. So, you know, cook a nice dinner with my friends. But then also like you can still see people you can get lunch with. You know, if you're in-between study breaks or sometimes I'll go and I'll get coffee and unstudied with a friend. So it's really just about like being creative and kind of have the Google Calendar and keep everything organized and in there. So managing everything is very, very doable. Thanks, Caitlin. What do you do on your time off? So my wife at UGA kind of revolves around two things. Well, okay. Also including school, but my sorority by minify and the horn program, all of my friends at school are either part of those two things. With clarify, obviously pre COVID times, we are always either doing one razors for our philanthropy or just funded bands to get like Sister events. And then with Horn, I'm always at the BBC. I spend all my time there, whether doing homework or just learning about people, startups that other students are working on. One of my favorite things that happens, or the VDC is called valence Friday, where the entrepreneurship club puts this on every Friday we have experienced entrepreneur come in and talk to us about their journey and how they got where they are and just give us a bunch of advice. They are open to any questions that we have. And that's just one of my favorite things because, well one, they give us free launch to all the entrepreneurs, to entrepreneurship students come together to learn from experience entrepreneurs. And it's just a great way to network and meet new people and learn from that. That's one of my favorite things to do. Great, thanks. And do any of you go to Perkins or turbine that we have, not just one but two students centers. Giovanna has a food court and a lot of Greek life has some meetings there. And at Perkins, we actually have an EA sports stadium where people play video games and also compete. So they have fun as well as competitions. And even a, they live or no, Truvada Perkins now to about live events or other activities on campus. I've only been to one of that pitch a lot now. It was my freshman year and they had a Halloween party. Me and my friends to stop by for a little while and there's a bunch of people they're addressing costumes, those foods, snacks is no spot. And I wish I would've went to more of those before COVID happened, but maybe next year then it'll start up again. Yeah. Okay. Great. So we have things on campus as well as off. Thank you all very much for sharing what you do when you're not in the classroom. We have a mentor program. And the mentor program is open to all students at the college. So if you want to mentor, you can get a mentor. And I was wondering Matt, I believe you had a mentor. Could you tell us about your mentorship experience? What did you do? Who was your mentor? Sure. So I actually joined the mentorship program a little late. So I joined when I was a senior and my mentor is Mike and he's awesome. He's had over 40 or 50 years of experience in supply chain management and a lot of consulting projects. And for me, someone who wanted to get into consulting and go a little bit different than the traditional sports path. Having someone with so much experience has been awesome and being able to connect with him and pick his brain for interview advice, networking tips and things like that has been really beneficial, especially as a senior getting into the job market. Having his advice that opening up his network to me has been really, really awesome and it's a great program that UD runs that I know isn't seen everywhere else. And I think it's just something that makes the business school ALL IN or fraternity. We have a mentorship program and we're connected with some of art for tourney alumni, but having one at the business school level with the executive experience of the 10 plus years and getting to pick their brain and learned about their path from UT on is really impactful and it helps you atan, preparing you for the post grad world or your internships that you get as a sophomore, junior. And Matt mentioned his business fraternity. We actually have three business fraternities and they all have mentor programs as well as we have a peer mentor program. So thanks, mom. A question was asked from Ashley. What are sports like? Udi and Matt? Maybe you can talk about sports and then Alicia, maybe you could talk about playing sports or What we do, who we lovingly call the little Bob. So what are you you work you work for the athletic director for your internship. So what are what teams do we have? We have some pretty good teams this year actually, what are sports like? Yeah, sure. So I think we have 20 or 21 Division 1 teams and it's awesome. Or football team is in the playoffs and they play a home game tomorrow night, which will be a lot of fun. I know it's something I'm really looking forward to. Our basketball teams been pretty good or women's team was in the NIT tournament this year, which was awesome. So our teams have a lot of success and then our field hockey team is fantastic and one of the best in the country for the past few years. But the squirts atmosphere is really awesome to one of my favorite experiences when I was an underclass and was freshman year, Notre Dame came into play AS and basketball and it was an awesome experience and atmosphere at the Carpenter Center. Mean, a bunch of my friends went down there for the game, went to a lot of football games as well with James Madison came. I think Richmond was one of the biggest ones, homecoming freshman year. That's still something I remember when I think one of our players got on Sports Center Top 10, which is really, really cool. But it's awesome and being involved with the athletic department and seeing how hard the student athletes work and how dedicated the employees or to making it a really fun atmosphere for the students is really awesome. We've had tailgating areas that the Athletic Department is set up. There's opportunities for students like myself to get involved working with them. Got a lot of really cool experiences, like being on the field for games or getting to know the athletic director personally, which is, I think pretty awesome. So it's a great sports scene. And I think having that small tree any two makes it really cool as well. Right? Thanks, Alicia. That's what the other sports we have here are things that yes. Yes. So I'm on the women's rowing team. It's not as much of a spectator sport as you know, basketball or football. So I don't expect anyone to code over to this Google river to come watch us. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of sports. There's also a tennis. I know. I think there's like figure skating and there's just a lot of sports to watch. And the tollgates are really fun. I've been to one. And also the basketball games they give out free Grottoes, pizza, things like that. So just always a good time. And then there's also a lot of clubs, sports, like there's hockey games that you can go and watch. And just like those volleyball tournament that the little above, that, pretty much anyone can sign up for if you want to pull a team together. And then as for the little bulb, It's the gym that everybody goes to. If you're a student here, then you get, you just swipe your card to get in. There's no extra p and have everything there. They have a freeway faction, they have the cardio regimes. They have rowing machine. And then they also have like a rock climbing wall. It's one of the bouldering ones. And then they also have rooms really racquetball. They have cycles studios, like they have everything there, so it's really awesome. Great. Thank you. I'd like to ask you a question that well, first of all, address the alumni question that I'm going to get you something to think about. Why did you choose UDL learner? And maybe you can also talk to Ashley's question about, you know, she's trying to treat a much smaller school and mu d, and I like to think of Judaism, big, small school. Think about why you chose u d, and I want to answer the anonymous questionnaire about we have a great alumni network and our alumni are very involved with our programs. To your pontine mentioned how our alumni contribute to the mentorship program. They're always coming back to campus to speak. I have a speaker series in my hospitality class. Another 15 speakers. We have, at least half of them are alumni. They blue hands, we have a saying blue hands helped blue heads. And when students graduate because they had such a great experience at UT, they want to give back. So I think our alumni network is definitely one of our strengths map. We'll start with you. Why did you pick Udi? And I think if I recall, you were deciding between a larger school and you day. And maybe you could talk to how the sizes of our campus and community as well as why you chose to come to you? Sure. So I was someone who made my college decision right at the deadline myself. I know that it's a stressful time, but the decision you'll definitely make an awesome one regardless. For me, I was debating between UD into larger schools. And for me what really drew me to Udi was every time I visited it made me feel comfortable and made me feel at home. And I think the size of beauty is really perfect where you're able to make an impact on campus. And specifically for me being a sport manager major, my internship at the athletic department, I couldn't have gotten at a bigger school, is being able to know the 80 personally actually have her phone number and textures sometimes about some of our projects. That's something that you wouldn't be exposed to at a bigger school. And I think having that perfect size where you're able to get involved and have a lot of the benefits of a larger school, but also have that really small communities really beneficial as well. For me, I've, every time I walk around campus I see plenty my friends. The class sizes are really awesome. Kinda that 35 to 50 range. I know people in all my classes all the time and I think the experiences I've gone to duty or things that I wouldn't have been able to get elsewhere because of that perfect combination of resources of a larger school, but also the feel of a smaller school and getting those close networks and friends and that alumni network you just talked about. I've met so many amazing alumni who've been willing to help me a ton in my career path and given me a lot of advice. So it's been a great decision. And as I'm winding down my college experience here, I'm so glad I picked Judy genuinely and it's been awesome. I should congratulate you already have a job. So you're all set for any graduation? Graduate? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Caitlin, why did you choose Udi and learn? So my decision-making process and a little bit different than math, I, you do as a first school that I tortured and that day I was like, That's it. That's my parents. I was like, I don't need to anywhere else. I don't need to apply anywhere else and go near d and that's the end of it. On and I have never looked back on not just sitting there regretted that decision for 1 second. And obviously my parents may be applied to other schools, but I told them there's no chance I'm going to them. I applied built on declare, like I said before. And so even like not finding a perfect needed for me right off the bat, I still knew that I would I just accumulate springtime and unions so beautiful and the spraying and just seeing everyone walking around sitting on the green. I just knew that I'll be will. This is a school that I could see myself going to and loving for the next four years. So once I found the entrepreneurship major, that just really reiterated the point that he was where he needs to be. So yeah, I just I just kinda knew right away. And so if you guys have the opportunity to come and visit the school, I know I know my first coming up soon, but if you guys do have the opportunity to, I definitely recommend it because just seeing the skull will definitely help you make your decision a lot, like okay. Great. Thank you, Caitlin. And I think you also brought out what I find what a lot of students do. They, they were a small big school or big small school, but students seem to find their home. And for you it's the VDC, the Venture Development Center. And that's like your many home and our finance students and our financial planning students hanging out with the girls, are they trading lab? That's there are many home. So I hear that a lot from students is kind of like you get your community within a community. Alicia, why did you choose New Deal? I'll keep it kinda hurts and for low on time. But it was three things for me at the campus is very similar to the town I grew up in. So it's very familiar while also not being the same. It's still very different. And then the second thing is the ease with which I could study abroad. I knew that was something I really wanted to do. And then on Third Reich, the business school does opera review so many advantages. But no matter what you do or what you take advantage of your, you're going to feel like no question. And my experience with only showing me that that was super true and I'm here. Okay. Thank you. And thank you all for being here today to share your thoughts about your experiences. I can't believe the hour just flew. Wanted to give everyone some ways. If you have more questions, want to contact us. If you have admissions questions, please contact admissions. If you have questions about advising, more information about that, contact the e-mail learner advising, if you have general questions about the business college, contact Lerner College, and if you're not sure who to ask, feel free to email or call me. Yes, that's my cell phone number. And I and I'm sharing that with you. And I don't know how many other universities have d's that share their cellphone numbers. But we do that here. And that's because we do give a personal experience to our students. So if you're not sure where to ask your question, please call me or leave a message or e-mail me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Do you think I want you to know before you go first, we have a survey we would love for you to fill out to get your feedback. And secondly, if the students said you want to visit campus, we are offering in-person campus tours thing are the outsides of our building, but it is run and offered by our students. And you can get a tour. We still have some slots left in April, so feel free to sign up for those tours through your portal. And if you're just coming to campus and walking around, if you go to any of our buildings, learner Hall, print out hall. We have a poster with a QR code and you can get a, a virtual tour of our buildings as well. Thank you all for being here today very much. We appreciate it and I hope to see you in the fall. Have a great weekend and thanks. Bye bye everybody.
Decision Day Presentation April 23, 2021
From Kimberly Ragan April 28, 2021
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