Connections newsletter from COB Office of Experiential Learning

WHERE: Festival Ballroom B, East Campus

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Student Organizations Are An Excellent Way to Complement Your Educational Experience!

There are an assortment of student groups associated with the College of Business. Being active in a student organization is a great way to network and build your résumé.

More information about 2016-2017 CoB Student Organizations can be found on the CoB Student Organizations web page!

College of Business-related student organizations and fraternities:

Alpha Kappa Psi

Association for Information Systems

Beta Alpha Psi

Beta Gamma Sigma

Delta Sigma Pi

Enactus

Epsilon Chi Omicron

Eta Sigma Delta

Financial Management Association

International Business Club

Madison Economics Club

Madison Investment Fund

Madison Marketing Association

Net Impact

Phi Chi Theta

Pi Sigma Epsilon

Professional Sales Club

Society of Entrepreneurs (campus-wide org.)

Society for Human Resource Management

Student Diversity Council

Plan to attend the JMU Student Org Night on Sept. 2 from 7-9 pm!

Meet the 2016-2017 Student Advisory Council (SAC) Members

The Student Advisory Council (SAC) represents the College of Business student body by serving as a liaison to the dean, administration, faculty, alumni, and the Board of Advisors, while actively planning initiatives for the betterment of the CoB.

Colin Church	Finance/Econ
Sara Etemad-Moghadam	Finance/ Int'l Business/ Business French minor
Madison Fazio	Finance/ Business Analytics/ Studio Art minor
Matthew Fracasso	Finance/Econ
Robert Gaertner	Finance
Alfred Guillen-Escobari	Int'l Business/ Business Spanish
Michael Habib	QFIN/Econ
Mitchell Huber	Econ
Niti Jadhav	Management
Olivia Marcey	Marketing
Jake McMonagle	QFIN/Math
Markie Milsap	Accounting/ Communication Studies
Megan Pappa	Management
Joseph Pitsenbarger	Finance
Emily Platt	Finance/Econ minor
Sydney Pridgen	Marketing
Victoria Sault	Accounting/ Poli Sci minor
Kiersten Schierenbeck	Management/ Hospitality Management
Qianyu (Tansy) Tan	Accounting
Kristina Truong	CIS/WRTC minor
Allison Zeppuhar	CIS/Spanish

Welcome to James Madison University! The

CoB Connections newsletter is being sent to you because you have expressed interest in a major in the College of Business. In this special issue, learn more about the Office of Experiential Learning and the resources that help students develop and enhance their leadership and professional skills. CoB Connections is published regularly to keep you up to date on opportunities to enhance your business education at JMU.

Shape Your Future Professional Development Series begins this Fall

The Shape Your Future Professional Development Series at the College of Business (CoB) will help you build key skills for success in the workplace through workshops and series designed to help prepare students to becomes leaders in business. Sessions include Choices to Productivity, Feed Forward, Advanced DISC Team Building, Ethical Reasoning, and Etiquette Dinners. Watch your email for more information.

Career and Academic Planning Office (CAP)

JMU's Career and Academic Planning Office (CAP) offers opportunities to enhance your JMU education. CAP provides workshops and advice on resumes, interviewing, finding internships and jobs, and more. Visit CAP at https://www.jmu.edu/cap/.

CAP also offers an online job portal: Recruit-A-Duke. Here students can find jobs, internships and externships. Internships and externship listings for business students can also be found on the CoB Experiential Learning web page here.

Upcoming Workshops and Training Sessions

Fri., Sept. 2

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Student Org Night

UREC Upper Turf

Meet the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs:
Molly Brown

As Associate Dean, Molly focuses on identifying, designing, and implementing programs that engage undergraduate business students in professional development and experiential learning activities.

Molly has a M.S. in Accounting and B.S. in Home Economics from James Madison University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant. Molly also serves as the faculty advisor for Beta Gamma Sigma, the academic honor society for business students.

Molly office is located on the 6th floor of Zane Showker Hall, and she can be reached at brownmg @jmu.edu.

Meet the Director of Experiential Learning: Samantha Collier

Sam opened the CoB Office of Experiential Learning in October, 2014. She spent the previous 13 years as Director of External Affairs at Rutgers School of Business-Camden. Sam's strong programming skills and student-centric approach enables Sam to develop leadership and professional development programs for JMU's College of Business students.

Sam received her B.A. in Political Science from Lynchburg College and a Master's in Public Administration from Rutgers University.

Sam's office is Room 205M on the second floor of Zane Showker Hall, and she can be reached at colliesb@jmu.edu.

Meet Our Doctoral Assistant:
Terry Fernsler

Terry is a Ph.D. student in the School of Strategic Leadership at James Madison University. He has extensive and diverse leadership experience, primarily in the nonprofit sector, including five years as the Economic Development District Director for a four-county, rural region of Washington state. In addition to his studies and support of the Office of Experiential Learning, Terry teaches and advises students in the Nonprofit Studies minor. He can be reached at fernslts@jmu.edu.

The Office of Experiential Learning's mission is to complement and enhance the student learning experience at the College of Business. The office engages students in leadership and professional development programs that increase students' capability to be proficient in the workplace.

The Office of Experiential Learning collaborates with employers, alumni, and community partners locally, nationally and internationally, to help them access talented students and assist in the educational process of preparing students to become engaged and qualified business leaders.

Learn more about our programs on our web page.

Contact the Office of Undergraduate Programs

Contact the Office of Experiential Learning

Ms. Molly Brown

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Email: brownmg@jmu.edu

Phone: 540.568.3035

Room 644 Zane Showker Hall

For more information contact Christine Shiflet at shiflecd@jmu.edu

Samantha Collier

Email: colliesb@jmu.edu

Phone: 540.568.7415

Room 205M, Zane Showker Hall

Terry Fernsler

Email: fernslts@jmu.edu

205M, Zane Showker Hall

We welcome your feedback about content! (e.g. club activities, improvements, or other content). Contact our Doctoral Assistant, Terry Fernsler, with your ideas!