Spring Break
The Daily OrangeProgram offers summer business experience
By Rebekah Jones
Posted: 5/7/08, 8:22 PM EST Section: News
Students attending SEBU stay in Haven Hall and attend eight hours of seminars and lectures daily. Whitman professors and local business leaders expose undergraduate students to marketing, human resources, accounting, finance and "everything you need to know to be in business," said Ravi Shulka, associate dean of Whitman and co-coordinator of SEBU.
"We're trying to entice them into the business program," Shulka said. "Many of these students would add value to society if they went into business."
Jade Gardener, a human development and sociology major, said she decided to participate in the program because it is geared toward non-business majors, while other programs like it are only available to students in the business field.
"The program is also short yet dense and diverse enough to give a grandeur idea of what the MBA entails as well as a short synopsis of some of the preparations and expectations for a Business Masters Degree," she said.
During the last two days of SEBU, students are assigned into groups to develop business plans which they present the last night of their stay. An award ceremony concludes the program, ranking the business plans after they are judged by local business professionals and Whitman faculty.
Students who finished the program last year and those who continue to participate will be put at the top of the list for financial aid packages if they choose to apply to the Whitman MBA program, Stith said.
"The business career path has always been a part of my personal plan since I was younger, but the pursuit of an MBA has shifted in and out of the plan throughout my collegiate career," Gardener said. "I knew that there was a reason I was exposed to the program, and lessons learned in these coming two weeks may really help dictate the direction of my academic, business careers and personal life."
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"We're trying to entice them into the business program," Shulka said. "Many of these students would add value to society if they went into business."
Jade Gardener, a human development and sociology major, said she decided to participate in the program because it is geared toward non-business majors, while other programs like it are only available to students in the business field.
"The program is also short yet dense and diverse enough to give a grandeur idea of what the MBA entails as well as a short synopsis of some of the preparations and expectations for a Business Masters Degree," she said.
During the last two days of SEBU, students are assigned into groups to develop business plans which they present the last night of their stay. An award ceremony concludes the program, ranking the business plans after they are judged by local business professionals and Whitman faculty.
Students who finished the program last year and those who continue to participate will be put at the top of the list for financial aid packages if they choose to apply to the Whitman MBA program, Stith said.
"The business career path has always been a part of my personal plan since I was younger, but the pursuit of an MBA has shifted in and out of the plan throughout my collegiate career," Gardener said. "I knew that there was a reason I was exposed to the program, and lessons learned in these coming two weeks may really help dictate the direction of my academic, business careers and personal life."
rdjone03@syr.edu
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