Good. Hi. Hi. Good, Good evening and welcome to our learner students stories program this evening. I hope you enjoyed our virtual tour of the Lerner College of Business and Economics is my pleasure to welcome you this evening for our webinar. Few housekeeping details before we get started. This is a webinar, which means you can see us, but we can't see you. And we also can't hear you, but we would love for you to put your questions in the Q and a. If you find the black bar, the control bar for Zoom is either at the top, bottom of your screen, in the middle, you'll see Q and a. Click on that and feel free to post your questions at any time as we want to hear from you. And this program is is being done to assure that you get your questions answered. And you find out more about the great things we have to offer here at University of Delaware. Okay, let's get started. A few technical details, but there we go. All right. My name is Cheryl Klein, I'm the deputy dean and our March here, Professor of Hospitality Business Management at the London College of Business and Economics. Today we also have with us Kimberly Wilson. She's the Assistant Dean of Students Services, and she's responsible for the learner college advising office, as we have our own advising office. Also joining us today is Julia. Julia back as an Associate Professor of Marketing. She's also an honors advisor at Lerner College and then Alex Huey. Alex is our later recruitment and coordinator, but he's also an alum, Udi and alum of our MBA program. And there'll be here joining us to help answer some of your questions. Before you meet the stars of our program tonight, our students, I just like to give you a little background and five key differentiators for Lerner College. I like to call them Delaware distinctions because it's really what distinguishes us and makes us different and stand out from other business schools. First of all. We have 17 thousand undergrads at the University of Delaware and 4 thousand graduate students. And what that means is our focus is on undergraduate programs. We have lots of clubs, organizations, associations, and activities all focused on our undergraduate and the undergraduate experience. Point number two, we are very high-quality programs and high-quality faculty at the Lerner College of Business and Economics. We are AACSB accredited, which is the gold standard for business schools. And we are ranked in the top 100 business schools out of 2000 business schools in the United States. Which means we're, we're in the top 10%. Learner is also large enough to offer many majors. We have 17 majors and 17 minors. And that's actually quite unique compared to other business schools. Most business schools only a handful of majors. So our students get lots of choices in terms of following their passion in the field of business. But we're also small enough. We have small class sizes. I just taught an intro class today, and I have 37 students in my class. So we like to have class sizes so that our faculty get to know our students and our students get to know our faculty. We also have tutoring and career services and advising services all geared towards making your experience one that feels very personalized. Finally, point number 5. And probably the one I like the best is we're in a very small college town in New York, Delaware, but we're near. Several major metropolitan areas were very close to New York City and very close to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC. The Amtrak train station is on our campus. We also a bus that leaves from our campus to go to New York and Philadelphia. So it's, I like to think of it as the best of both worlds. Small college town, but near a lot of metropolitan areas where you can go and have some fun on the weekends or tour, go out to restaurants. Some statistics of how our students when they graduate are successful. Like to point out that 95% of our students are employed or pursuing a graduate degree. We have students to go on to law school, believe or not. We have students who go on to medical school, but 95% are placed within six months of graduation. 91% of the students rate their experience at Lerner College is being good or excellent. And about 48% of students have more than one job offer. And 48% of our students actually get their first job in industry from the job that they interned in. We have our average salary here. And I want to point out the knowledge rate, the knowledge tree is 86 percent. That means we have statistics from 80% of our students that graduated. And that is a very high level of knowing where our students are and what they're doing. And I think we get such a high knowledge rate is because once you're a blue hand, you're always a blue hand. And our students and our graduates like to keep in touch and they like to. Help each other out. So we have alumni that come back all the time and keep in touch with our students and with faculty. And they like to respond to our service, which is why we have a high knowledge rate. And it really shows in, in the placement rate that we have for the students that graduate. Statistics are not on. Here is the National Association of Colleges and Employers called Nace, does a survey every year. And they found that the majority of our majors are paid well over the average of students who have the same majors in other universities and colleges. And it's as high as 20 percent higher in some of our majors. So that's another statistic we're very proud of. It means companies appreciate the learner degree and the quality of our students who graduate. Now, the stars are our shell is my pleasure and I want you to please join me in welcoming. We have three students who are here this evening and I'm going to share their stories little bit about their experiences, as well as answer some of your questions. So I like to ask them to turn on their cameras if they haven't already. And let's start with Carter. Carter, could you give a little introduction? Tell us a little bit about yourself, your major, your hometown, some of your extra curricular activities. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Carter bond and I'm a Junior High School business management major in the honors program. And some of the things I'm involved in on campus. I'm the treasurer for club Managers Association of America, an Events Coordinator for people to go. I'm borrowing material for the culture of forgiving Advisory Board and I'm also including the magazine called The New and I'm also a visiting assistant, restrict fall and from New York, Delaware. So I'm on the Delaware innovative redirect. Great. Thank you, Carter. I always I always get exhausted hearing all the things you do. I'm so impressed with all the clubs on another clubs you're involved in are very active. All right. It is now my pleasure to introduce Josh. Josh, tell us your major or hometown, some of the activities you're involved with at school. Of course, hi, I'm Joshua. I'm a Senior Operations Management major here at UT. I'm from Hamilton Township, New Jersey. On campus. I'm involved in a Christian Fellowship. Gotten hint that I'm a member of the University of Delaware marching band. I'm the former secretary of the music Management Students Association and also a member of ISIL dynamic hip hop group. Wow, operations management of hip hop. And it's a great combination. And last but not least, morale. If you can also introduce yourself, tell us your major, some of the activities you're involved with in your hometown, rewind and morale. So I am a senior finance and marketing major from Long Island, New York. Outside of my studies, I'm on the executive board of learners professional business return the Delta Sigma Pi. I'm a peer mentor for incoming freshmen and I'm a teacher's assistant for the management and marketing department. Great. Welcome to all of you. And again, thanks for being here. Now, carter, you're involved in a lot of student activities and you found your home is a hospitality business management major. Can you tell us how you fit all of this into your schedule? We're so I think that one of the first things is Google calendar is very important to me and that's how I kinda manage everything. But I think the biggest thing is that a lot of things somebody bought them on campus kind of have to do with programming. So that's something that I'm really passionate about and also kinda goes hand in hand with hospital. So I think the fact that I was able to find some things even outside of learner that are clubs that I can so relate to my studies kinda helped me learn to balance everything. Great. Thank you. Now Carter, you came in as a hospitality business management student. You were one of the students who knew the major you wanted to pursue and he jumped right in. But Josh, you actually started in a different college. Can you tell us your path how you found your way to operations management? Of course. So actually came into UD with a music management degree. I had auditioned into the College of Arts and Sciences. I knew that in my UT education I wanted to incorporate music and business. So currently I'm a music management minor with an operations in what? The major operations management. But the road to get there was a bit of a rocky one, but I believe dime and the right spot right now. So my sophomore fall was my first year in learn. I had to transition. I switched my major from music to accounting. I'll I had to do was go onto our system. Claire, that I want it accounting to be my major, had the qualifications and they switched into learner. It was a great experience as an accounting major, but I realized it wasn't for me. As soon as I took the intro to operations course, I realized that what I really wanted was variety after college. I didn't want to feel stuck doing one thing. And I believe the operations was the right path for me because you can work in any industry and do a variety of different jobs and be a problem solver in the industry. So it was definitely a rollercoaster getting into the right major. But I definitely believe that I'm in the right spot currently. Thank you. See you switched from school or music to accounting. And 2, 0 and 0 m and in Canada are both in learner. And did your advisor help you with that or did you just do it on your arm? I actually there was an operations management event one night during during a class day. I remember my teacher for my intro course was holding this event to talk about the operations major. I didn't know it wasn't major until that event. And she had explained what it was and gave us the gave us insight not only into the major, but the sorts of jobs that we wanted after college. And after I went to that event, I went home and I was talking to my parents and I told them, I don't think I want to do this anymore. I think on the switch them to this major. And then right from then I filled out the form and it got approved. Excellent. Thank you. Yeah. No problem. So many of you that were born before the event this evening, sharing that you are business, I declared and believe it or not, two-thirds of our majors and Lerner College come in as business under Chrome. So more come in, is undeclared and then find their major while they're a student here. So like Joshua, brighter timbre, a major spare, or might have some friends that are majoring in different majors and they find out about their majors and then they find their home. And that's very typical. And it can be done within four years because we have a very flexible curriculum and we also have a shared curriculum for the first two years. Mostly students take similar courses. We also have a lot of students that come like Carter, right into the major that they were interested in right away and took off from there. Morale. You are actually double major. And I was wondering if you could tell us how that works because we were not 33 percent of our learners students double-major and can graduate on time. Summer. Oh, yeah, of course. So actually initially when I came to UT, I didn't really have a clear path as to what I want you to do. And I came in as a cognitive science major and I just kinda knew that I was really interested in understanding people and the decisions that they make. This turns out to be a big mistake for me because as freshman year went on, I started to really struggle in my classes, specifically linguistics. I'm just having a very difficult time. And that's when I realized that, you know, that major really was not for me. And with the help of my advisor, she really just helped me understand what I can do with this interest and how to segue that into a different major. It really suited what I understand as a student and how I am and what I'm interested in. So basically, I decide to switch to marketing because I could still really utilize that passion for understanding people's decisions and their decision-making process and use that to market products towards them. And eventually I also added finance because I really wanted to have a really well rounded understanding of business. And I thought that I could do that by understanding finances and the money-making side of it and statistics and everything like that. And also have marketing where I understand more of the psychological aspect of business. And so with the help of my two fantastic advisors, Julia via, who's here today and carry Baldwin might financed visor. They have really helped me stay on path with these two majors because they did come in a little bit late to the game since I switched my major and they've consistently helped me stay on path and understand what I need to do in order to complete my two majors within four years. And so thankfully, I'm going to be graduating in May and I have been able to stay that path and I don't look back. That's great. Um, how, how easy was it? Now Josh said it's pretty easy to switch majors. How easy was it to put in for a double-major? I mean, it was a typical It definitely was not difficult. It just took taking a couple classes that I needed to get into the finance major and adding that onto my transcript and then. Eventually I was able to just make a simple request on our EDS IS, which is our system that we use to manage our schooling. And my advisor has really helped me with doing that. And they were fantastic in the process and I didn't have any questions because they made it so fear for me. Great. Thank you. Now we've had a lot of questions about internships and morale. You had a very interesting internships, were interned with the FBI, right? Yeah. I don't know if you're able to tell us everything you did because of this, the FBI, but could you share with us? Did you get that internship? What career services did you use on them? You know. How was interning with the AP course? Yeah, so since a young age, I actually really wanted to do something meaningful and important that could really just improve people's lives. And for me, I felt that was something I could do with the FBI. So I was really passionate about that. And they don't have many opportunities when you're at a younger age, but they do have them for college age students. So I kept up to date with all their resources and all their different opportunities. And their biggest opportunity was there Honors Internship. And I was really interested in that. So I knew that it would be difficult eventually to get that internship because it is very competitive. And UD really made it possible with all of the immense resources that they give their students. So I was able to use career services to help me with my resume, my cover letter because as a freshman, I really did not know anything about keeping it up-to-date resume and cover letter because I really have done anything about thus far. So they were able to help me with that. And I also utilize my professional business fraternity. They were able to give me interviewing, experience and interviews with some older students who are seniors because I was a freshman at the time, they were really able to give me some great feedback on my interview process and really built me up into a more confident interviewee. And then I also utilized my mentor from martyrs executive mentor program, my mentor and my JSON. He is really fantastic and he was able to help me with any other questions I had with my application, with the interview process, with anything else that I needed basically, and he was just a great resource. So with all that and I was finally able to get the internship my freshman year. And it was an amazing experience. I had been doing it for now three summers. So my first summer I interned on a white collar crime Squad and then for the past two summers I've been interning with the counter-terrorism squads and I've been really been able to act as almost a junior analyst in I'm really able to get my hands dirty and get involved in case work. I'm able to create leads, do research, talk to agents and analysts, and get real-world experience. And it's been absolutely fantastic. And I've also been able to really create presentations and briefs that I'm able to give to eye level executive. Within the FBI, which has been really important experience just for after college to, to have that under my wing. And it's been fantastic and I need amazing friendships that I would have never been able to without this internship. And I'm going to continue talking to those people regardless of where I go in the future even after college, if it's not the FBI. And I really would not have been able to get that experience without UD. That's great. And it sounds like you were doing real work and it wasn't just busy work. You are actually deeply involved with the work of the FBI. Definitely wants. Now Carter, he also had an internship in and tell us how did you find the internship? How how did you do to help connect students with employers? And what was your internship or what did you do for her? So as I mentioned before in the treasure for the club Managers Association chapter that we have here at UT. So we work very closely with the Philadelphia visit each chapter. So that's a lot of industry professionals in their club managers in the area. So one of the club managers is JSON Feller and he's actually our liaison for the parent chapter. And he's a UT alum, so he's really enthusiastic about helping us get job opportunities and connecting us with other major or other industry professionals. So he was actually the one who offered me the position at his country club, kinda squared golfing country. So I got to have a lot of great experiences that his club working in front of the house, whether it be hosting, wait, you're saying learning kind of the tools of the trade as a freshman. So I was really grateful for that opportunity because one of the things you see is that UDL ones really are all about helping current students. So I've had many opportunities were different UDL lungs that put me in contact with different people that I probably wouldn't have been able to get in contact to without them. So I'm really appreciative of that. Thank you. Also, today, we are having right now as we speak the hospitality business management career fair, it's happening virtually. Udi has two large career fairs. And then within Lerner College, we have programs like Meet the majors where companies come in industry specific. So might be an accounting meet the majors. It might be a marketing meet the majors. And then companies that are interested in those particular areas come in and students are invited to attend and they must just professionally. We work with them on the resumes and their LinkedIn. And we also have a system called Handshake and list thousands of jobs that UT students have at their fingertips. And quite often if their resumes are in their companies actually reach out to them and say we're interested in you, would you apply to our company? Handshake is a national system. University of Delaware is one of the universities that, that gives access to our students and also alumni. Now, Josh, you also did an internship. Could you tell us how did you find the job and then what did you do? Of course, I actually, I've had three. My first internship was with the Walt Disney Company. My junior year, where we were in the park. Okay. I was I was on to opening Teams hours and hours on the opening team of Galaxy's Edge and Hollywood studios. Also on opening team for a ride, rise of the resistance. That was my first internship. I actually apply it on a whim. I had got an email and thought it would be a cool opportunity. So I applied there, got the interview and secured the internship. It was just a great experience as an operations major to experience one of the largest operations here in the US, maybe even worldwide, to see what it is to be on the frontline of an opening theme of the Walt Disney Company. I am. We did we just did a lot of work. We helped with guest relations, were able to do quality checks on certain certain aspects of the land and on the right. And it was just overall great experience. My next internship was completely different. It was at a bank, SWS fs bank. There's a branch here in New Jersey. I secured that internship through LinkedIn. I was talking with my career advisor and he was helping me to look for jobs. And that's with learner career career center. We have our own career center that I'm gratefully, which I greatly appreciate because row set my resume was definitely in shambles before I came to UT and our career center really helped us to get that in order. And my career advisors, Steven, he helped him with interview questions. How to present myself, how to sell myself not only as a student because at, but asic, a great candidate. So I worked this internship with wishes Macon just got experience as a personal banker learning everything about the frontlines, what goes on in a bank since I haven't been in one sense, I opened my account. So it's definitely great to get that experience. Currently, I'm working for a startup. I'm a marketing internship for a music company called you extend. And this is also completely different from the other two. I'm really getting the feel on how, how can we propel a startup company from the ground up. It just started in July, and I'm working through their social media accounts and creating their content, as well as doing a lot of outreach and research on how to grow and all of these opportunities I secured. I believe that UD learner the Career Services 100 percent took part in my success because of the resume, the interview questions, and just really helping us to be successful in our in our endeavors that aren't our education as well. Great. Thank you. And you certainly had a variety of internship experiences. I'm a Star Wars fan, so I always love hearing about what you do to Walt Disney. I can't wait to see it myself in person. Very exciting. So we've had a few questions about not only job placement in internships, but study abroad opportunities. And Josh, if I could go back to you, Could you talk about study abroad experience that you've had? Of course, Winter 2019 and January I study then good, I'm not paid. That doesn't directly correlate into my learner experience, but definitely my AUD experience. As well as majoring operations. I have a minor music and I'm have a certification in Spanish. So when I studied abroad, I was put with a host family in which they didn't know any English. So I was forced into a context in which I had to learn Spanish to survive. Really my point across, and it's something that I've wanted to do my entire life. I come from land to set endeavor, new Spanish gone up. So I was able to really pursue a personal endeavor at Udi. And now I'm conversational in Spanish, I'm not fluent. And that's a goal I'm trying to get. But you did definitely allowed me and gave me the opportunity to pursue something that I wanted for my life. And it was just a great experience. I believe that to grow, you need to throw yourself in uncomfortable situations. And your study abroad program. I know mine was with the Spanish department, the linguistics department. But the Lerner College also offers business study abroad. Some places like Australia and other places, other places around the world that I would definitely take part of if you're able to study abroad and have the means to do so, Udi will definitely help you get there and it's an amazing experience. I highly recommend doing. Great. Thank you. And you mentioned some of the other learner study rods. We have a study abroad in Australia every winter session that also goes into the semester. And students and our jobs and internships on, on that study abroad program. We are saying abroad programs in Argentina, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, as you mentioned. And because Udi has a very longer winter session than most places, many of our students go to study abroad. I think in fact, two years ago we had more students during winter session in Australia and New Zealand. Then we did on campus with our learner programs. So that's another exciting opportunity and we are hopeful and, and are planning to earn our study abroad programs again, starting up in the fall. I do want to put a plug-in for one special study abroad that indeed does the world Scholars Program. And this is a program offered to all UT students. You have to apply. We do have a lot of learners, students that participate. These students spend their first semester, freshman year abroad. They are either in Madrid, Athens, Greece, Rome and Italy, and Auckland, New Zealand. And actually my son as a UT student needs easy world scholar who spent his first semester in Rome with 30 other UT students. He had an amazing time. I think he made friends for life and he got a great international educational experience and now he's back on campus, did not miss a beat. All the courses are considered unique courses all the other time abroad. And it was a great program that I can highly recommend. So that's called the World Scholars Program. All right, we have some other questions that we got from our survey. I actually also Jackson asked a similar question about how do you get exposed to different business major so you know what you can do angle and I I believe Dr. by AAC is here and I was right. You should be talking about McGrady 110, which is our introduction to business. And talk about how that course, how students find images. Low, Doctor, Bye. Yeah, thanks for joining me. How are you? I'm good evening, everybody. Thank you for injury prevention needed to make a five-year one of the things that I'm over, the b way D1 for the program. You hear me okay. He's basically, it's a little hard, a little bit different, but that's perfect. So I'm on one of the things that I do is that I oversee our basics of business program. It is a freshman course. You are in a group of, it depends on the course in this section, but between 22 and 40 students. So Carter was actually in my DUE D1 10, couple years ago. But you get exposure to all of the different majors. So the way that the course is set up is that we really spent basically a week on finance, on marketing, on business analytics, sport management in hospitality. So not only are we doing course content, we're bringing in clumps into the class. So just this week in our sessions, we had the investment clubs, IQ, we had the marketing club come speak. We have the business fraternities all come speak. Part of the class also includes a learner passport. And the idea there is that we have a whole slew of activities that we basically put together. A Google Doc for students in learner for professional development, for being able to figure out what your major is. Whether it's sitting in an investment club meeting, going to an entrepreneurship free lunch Friday. I'm joining faculty and other students as part of learner diversity council to talk about important topic. So the students have to attend a number of defense of their choice. So the idea of the course is, let us, was everything, let us gently nudge you. You are meant to experience some of the things that learner has. I'm so it allows students to really expose themselves to clubs they otherwise would not know as much about. We also have upperclassmen panel, almost kind of like this, but we'll invite five or six upperclassmen into every section and they'll share their experiences with freshmen students. So this is a required course for all first semester freshman. Also as part of the course, we have a peer mentor and a teaching assistant. These are two upperclassmen who had been trained to sort of help you adjust and morale mentioned she has one of the peer mentors in the course, but they help cover anything from how to be safe it you'd eat, how to register for classes, pick your major, how to find housing, all sorts of opportunities, how to get involved. And the other thing I want to notice, the class works really closely with learner Career Services. I'm, I think Josh mentioned earlier, learner has incredible career services. There's a Career Services Center rate for the college. They work very closely with our students. All of our students work with them to get their resumes in that handshake system and approve their very first semester. They we have professional development speed networking events that all of the students go to. It's part of the mandatory part of the class to network with employers. All of this for the very first semester at learner. Great, thank you. And you mentioned peer mentoring at hand, morale. You were a peer mentor. Could you talk about what you did and what type of things you hope students with. Thank you, Doctor Mayo? Definitely. So like Dr. back was talking about, we really help students with transitioning from being at home in high school to being on a college campus. So when it's in person, we really help with helping students to get involved. Whether that's through the activities there, which really shows students. It's also online now too. But the Activities Fair is a basically an opportunity for students to walk around and get to know the different opportunities at learner and D. So as different clubs, fraternities, sororities, all different sorts of extra curricular activities that students can really get involved in intramural sports, things like that. So we help them with getting involved on campus. We also help them with really meeting like other students and with helping them to adjust on-campus life. So that's teaching them about like the do's and do not's and the safeties of being involved sexually end with drugs and alcohol on just need being safe on campus. We also help them with it, figuring out their future at Udi. So that means helping them with figuring out different classes that they should be taking how to stay on course. So that in conjunction with their advisors, we really give them a very well-rounded view of what they should be doing to really achieve success at UT. And then sometimes that also requires some one-on-one help. So we're always excited to really get down and dirty and really understand what are the needs of our students. So that can be through coffee dates, or we talk about what the student is lacking and how we can really come in and fill in those gaps for them. So it's definitely a really great experience for students and helps them adjust to being on campus. Great, thank you. And sometimes students are more comfortable asking students questions rather than Chargaff agree? Very much. Please remember, you can ask questions in the Q&A. Feel free to post. I want to make sure we we answered all the questions in that in there, a question that had several parts. Do students take courses in their major during their freshman year? Well, they definitely take the foundations and business. Everybody who comes in freshman year and the learner takes that. What other freshmen courses did you take? Because it's, it's pretty open. I mean, you have Gen Ed I know Carter for your major. You were in my class, right? What were your freshman courses? Well, I took the introduction of hospitality, was active clients lead our data a little bit more. And so what Hospitality Man, which is something that I really appreciate it. So I can start to be a little bit more mindful of what I was looking for internships and when I was looking to do after graduation. But also some of the more general business classes like accounting, economics and all that good stuff, as well as a couple of English classes. So you have quite a variety of classes that you're going to take as a freshman, but you do kinda dive into your major right away, which is a good thing. So you can start to see whether or not you like it or whether you want to change it or anything like that. Great. Thank you. Josh. What were the first OM courses like when did you start taking them? That's a great question. My first ON my first OM course was in my AUD career late in the game. I believe that was my first semester, junior year, where I took my intro to. That's the semester I switched my major. So I was still an accounting at the time. But as a learner student, you had it. You have to take BOD 30 6, which is Intro to operations management. So it was pretty yet I took it later on because I had switched from the College of Arts and Sciences. And you don't want your gen ed courses. Oh yeah, knock those out. On my first my first or second year at I'd knock those out. Morale. How about you? What was your freshman year like What were some of the courses? Some business courses you taught? Yeah. So my freshman year, as I mentioned before, I got off to a little bit of a late start, so I really only started taking business classes my second semester. So that included taking like microeconomics, which was really agree, step into learning about business because it's kind of the foundation for understanding our market. I also took some just regular general courses. So I, I got to take some fun courses, like an English course that was about different literature types of vampire stories. So that was a lot of fun. I got to take an art class, and I also took my sciences. So that was, I took geography with a lab and that was a lot of fun. It's wondered about geography. And there's definitely a lot of options your freshman year for what kind of courses you can take for fun. But there's definitely also some business courses you can take, like micro and macroeconomics view AD 110, which is what we were talking about earlier about the course where we have the peer mentor who helps students adjust to on-campus living, but also teaching them about basics of business. And teaching them about the different majors that you do for the business majors. So there's definitely a great variety that you'll be taking your freshman year. And I just wanted to mention that it is possible to transfer into learner by the, by the first semester software and graduate on time very easily. And Dr. by AC and you just talk about, you know, what, that progression of students who come in freshman year, what are those early business forces that most everybody takes? I think one of the things that people don't realize about business, especially those who don't have maybe a family member coming in from, in the business world is how much all of these different domains, as we talk about all the different majors, Really. So if I'm a finance major, I still have to understand accounting. I understand operations by understand marketing. And so I think, we think about learner, is that a lot of the courses that you would take, regardless almost of what major you are. There's a huge overlap. So pretty much almost every major will take VOA D1 10 and economics and accounting and finance. And I actually as an advisor, I'll have students coming and elect Josh in her junior year and saying, let me, I want to double major or I want to change my major, or I want to add a minor. Know I have students all the time saying I want to add two minors. We have double majors, double minors. And so whether you know what you want to do or whether you have no clue what you want to do. The first two years are really your breadth courses and your basics. You're counting your marketing, your management courses to get some basic exposure. If that moment you say I really want to inject my major or I want to add another major or minor, you have the opportunity to do that. Great. Thank you. I think that gives people a sense of how it works. I know we're running out of time and I want to get several questions answered. Personal work. And that would be what business focused clubs you're in and what do you do? We had a lot of questions from the survey. What do you do when you're not in class? Who would like to take that 1 first and take that? So currently I'm in Delta Sigma Pi, which is learners official business for journey. There's also two other business opportunities, and other one is Alpha Kappa Psi. And I can't remember the third one, but they're all great business return these. And they're really a fantastic asset for any business student because it really gives you the network of other business students and it gives you the opportunity to create fantastic friendships that will go far beyond Udi and your time here. It also gives you the amazing alumni network that we have to offer. So that goes back tent-like to 10 years ago when these business returnees first started. Say, you have such an immense amount of people that you can go to to learn about what they do after college, how they achieved their career goals. And just also about college in general. We also have fantastic resources which include so the alumni network friends. You also have peer review of your resume and cover letter, mock interviews. We do professional events with different companies. So companies like Geico, BlackRock, Bloomberg, they all come in to talk to us about their internship and job opportunities. So you have a really great assets here on campus. And then you also have work opportunities for students who want to make some money on the side and you can also get involved with the school that way. So personally, I, I'm a peer mentor, as we mentioned before. I am also a TA, which has been great because I have the ability to stay involved with the courses that I once took. And I can keep mastering that content and staying connected with the professors here at UT, that there's a great amount of resources here that will keep you in touch with business, with students and with faculty. So it's really very well rounded. Wow, Yes, Josh, what class? Of course, when I'm not in class, that's my time to do stuff that I'm scared to do, which is why join the Hip Hop Club or the dance crew. I never saw myself. I was actually terrified. I went to a Activities night which isn't even if you don't know where all of the UD all of the UD organizations are. Our cells. We call them. Show up in the career centers and you just get to go and choose and put your name down, even if you're not sure what. If you want to be a part of this organization? You just put your name down anyway because you never know if you're going to be a part of it. So I remember I put my name down for ISO dynamic my freshman year thinking it was funny. And then my sophomore year not doing marching band anymore. And I'm choosing to do that. So to separate my class work from what I do outside of class, I always want to, I always want to make sure I'm having fun. My I made most of my friends within my Christian Fellowship and the dance crew. So I definitely recommend that you definitely just put your name out there. If you're ever you're able to go to activity. It's not whether it's online or on campus, whatever format they're holding it. Put your name down for anything that interests you, even if you don't know, you're going to take part in it. I also UT's also in There's Main Street and I'm a foodie. So if you like to eat an on-campus, definitely hit Main Street up. There's so many restaurants and if you're a gamer, you like to hang out. We also have a place called the hand zone, which is in our Student Center. And downstairs they have ping pong tables, pool tables, some video game console, some ice hockey. Yeah, There's so much to do on campus. You'll never be bored when the IUD. Great. Thank you. I know there's a great restaurant seat on mainstream. Some students try to eat at all the restaurants going to lands, we got a reply that gradual, you know, we've had a number of questions about the Honors Program and Carter, you're in the honors program. Can you talk about what do you do in the Honors Program? Where do you live? What are some of the courses like him and I think Morella eyes do the same thing you have to call finishes. So I'm a big advocate for the honors program. I was in my freshman year and I'm still in it now. Um, I think that it's been a really great benefit to my career, my college career here. You start off in the freshman doing, which is writing Hall, which is where all the honors students live. So I think that that was really great to start off in that environment because you're around people who may have similar majors or maybe in some departments, but they kind of have similar values in terms of education and kinda the value they place on that. So I think that that was definitely very helpful for me in terms of how that affects my classes. So in hospitality department, there aren't a lot of only honors classes, but there are Honors sections within the classes I took. So for example, inductor client's house, introduction to hospitality class. I had a few extra projects which I think kind of just enriched my learning a little bit more. And I had to think a little bit differently and just had some more opportunities to connect with Dr. Klein and some other professors that I had Honor sections in as well. So those projects kind of helped me expand my learning a little bit more outside the classroom. And I think that it provided some experiences that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. So I definitely am grateful to the Honors Program. And I will say they also kinda support your college career realistically outside of the classroom too. I know they had field trips like my freshman year, they sponsored a field trip to the Museum of African-American History in Washington DC. They have a number of activities that they're always kind of providing for the honors students and their newsletters. So I think that they do a great job supporting their students. Right? Thank you. I know the Honors dorms really nice. Well, could you share a little bit about your honor's experience and maybe particularly about learner. Yeah, of course. So the honors experiences really well-rounded here at UT. Like Carter mentioned, we get to live in at the freshman dorm at Reading Hall. Which is really great because you are able to get to know students who are in the same major is you who also might not be in the C major. So it's great to get some diverse backgrounds in there and learn about what they're learning about in school. And then with learner, It's really great because the classes that are honors focused, those are smaller class sizes. So in my finance major, I'm a honors finance major and I've had the opportunity to take classes with around the same students each semester because they are the finance honors degree is on the smaller side, so it's probably around the scene. 10 students I get to have classes with each semester, which is really great because I get to know them really well. And then the smaller class size is a great benefit because we're able to really get to know the professor better. The professors able to get to know us. And it's really a more tight-knit circle of people. And it's really able to make the learning more personalized because that professor is able to give you individual attention as opposed to a 300 person lecture, which is really great. And like corner mentioned, they also have a lot of great opportunities for getting to know other students outside the classroom. So they have different kinds of meet and greets where they sponsor it with coffee and bagels or field trips like my freshman year and I got to go to Hershey Park with some students from my dorm and I got to know those students that I may have not met previously. So there's a lot of fun and the honors degree is constantly helping us to be better students and to also be better as individuals through the different programs that they offer. Great. Thank you. And my son who's also in the honors program and he's had some very interesting lessons as well. Just like morale said, small class size, you're going to get to know faculty. And it's just a great other way to meet other students who have similar interests too. So thank you both for sharing his experiences. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. I can't believe. We went a little over. And I want to thank everybody for for staying on a little bit longer. I want to thank our students for taking the time to be with us today. Are hearing your experience, I should be sharing my screen now. Is that correct? Can you all see the screen? So if we did not get to answer your question, please feel free to contact us. A missions questions. Go to the admissions. If you have questions for advising, you can contact learner advice and Kim Wilson will answer your questions if you have general questions. E-mail learner, you del.edu if you want or you can email me directly and I'll also give you my cell phone number. As you go look at other schools. I think one way that we show that were personal and unique is I'm going to share my real cellphone number, Wiki. Usually somebody calls when we do that. If I don't answer the call right away, just leave a message. I will get back to you and we have many ways to get your questions answered. And you had some great questions today. Survey. And on line. If you want to visit us again, if you want to see more about Lerner College of mu d, We have two more decision days coming up. Highly recommend you sign up and come to them. We have other learner virtual visit days between students and the other faculty and to other learner students stories sessions, I believe one will be an honors section. Finally, you can see this program as well, other programs and students who had recorded, I believe carter, you're one of the students we have recording up and you can hear about their experience that's on UD, on demand. Or you can visit our campus in-person as well as virtually. But remember ME first, you have to decide to come here. I May 1. And we hope that you do. And we want to thank you so much for being with us today. And we look forward to seeing you at New Student Orientation, the summer new student orientation, you actually meet your advisor one-on-one. You're advising starts right before you're even a student full-time with us. So we look forward to seeing you there and thank you all for being with us this evening and go blue hands. Thank you all. And have a good night.
Lerner Virtual Visit: Student Stories 2.23.2021
From Kimberly Ragan February 25, 2021
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