Attention new business undergrads!

Starting next Monday, January 8, 2007, all newly-enrolled undergraduate business students will receive life-long e-mail addresses from the College of Business Administration! What a deal!

Your new e-mail address is your FirstName.LastName@business.fiu.edu, your user name is your Panther ID, and your password is your date of birth (mmddyyyy)!

This new permanent e-mail address, made possible through an in-kind gift from Hewlett Packard, uses a state-of-the-art Zimbra, web-based e-mail and collaboration suite.

To access your address, type the following in your web browser: http://mail.business.fiu.edu. Then, enter your Panther ID as your user name and your date of birth as your password, as noted above. You’ll have 200mb of storage space, and this address will be yours for life!

You can use Microsft Outlook to use your new address using either IMAP or POP3 protocol…directions can be found at http://business.fiu.edu/technology

BizFest

BizFest happens on January 23d! Join the party! The college’s annual Biz-Fest—with a Hollywood theme this year—will take place on the Ryder Business Building’s south lawn on January 23rd, 2007, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The college’s Business Student council organizes this “welcome back to the college” event every January.

Find out how to get involved with the many student organizations in the college. Target will be sponsoring the party again this year, and Amigos for Kids will have a presence as well! Enjoy good food, entertainment, and games! Learn about how you can network through joining one of the college’s clubs! Welcome back!

If you take pictures, be sure to send them in so we can put them on our blog.

Introduction to Business GEB 2011

We have a great course for undergraduate students thinking about pursuing a degree in business (but not sure if that’s what they want to do or are uncertain about what area in business they’d most like to study) and for those who plan to go after other majors but want an overview of business to round out their education.

It’s called “Introduction to Business” (GEB 2011)—and it gives those who take it a “bird’s eye” view of the entire gamut of business disciplines—accounting, finance, management, international business, management information systems, marketing, decision sciences, human resource management—you name it. Not only does it give you a fundamental understanding of these aspects of business, but can help you decide which of them (or combination of them), if any, you most like and are most suited to your talents!

Not only that, but it’s been designed into a unique, innovative, interactive, and “fun” package that those who have taken it continue to rave about. Taught by Associate Dean Cliff Perry, the course is fully online, and incorporates textbook reading, Power point slides, audio, video cases, self-study assignments, essay exercises. For example, each student creates his or her own homepage. Students are assigned to teams, and teams engage in discussion forums to respond to assignments as a group; their answers are then posted on an “all teams” video discussion forum.

Find out more at http://business.fiu.edu/landon/intro_to_business.cfm or view the course syllabus at http://business.fiu.edu/pdf/geb2011.pdf

Fall 2006 Commencement

Fall, 2006, Commencement will be held at 3:00 p.m. on December 19, 2006, in Pharmed Arena for all undergraduates except those in the School of Accounting, who will join graduate students for the ceremony in the Arena at 7:30 p.m. Don’t forget to attend the alumni party immediately following the afternoon ceremony….find out how to stay connected and involved with your business school.

Wall of Stars

And, it’s not too late to buy a star and leave a legacy on the Wall of Stars, to be displayed in the lobby of Commons Hall in the new business building complex to open in Fall, 2007. Read about this great opportunity at http://business.fiu.edu/Spotlights/building_complex_fund.cfm.

BBA+ graduates

Hope all you BBA+ graduates had fun at your party on Friday. If you have any pics you’d like to share, be sure to send them in to post. Let us know, too, what you thought of the program.