College of Business Virtual Information Session

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The way we're gonna do this I'm Lynn Richardson. I'm the Dean of the College of business and I'm I'm in my 9th year here and we would love to have you on campus for a destination day or for a visit. But obviously that's not available this year, so we're glad that you joined us tonight to talk a little bit about specifics about the College of business. So I've starting out with our AACSB accreditation. We were accredited by a CSP international which is the world's Premier accreditation organization. Several years ago, and that's a quality indicator to you, so we'll start with that.

That says that we made high standards of business education throughout the world, so.

Uh, so we'll start with that. The next thing I want to go to is our mission statement, so this is our mission statement. You can read it, but I want to. I've highlighted in red several of the things that we want to emphasize, so we first we emphasize our liberal arts tradition. So I I like to tell prospective students in our current students, it's like we're building a house and what we're doing here at Mary Washington. If you're a business major on a liberal arts campuses, you're building a really strong foundation of your house with our business.

With our liberal arts classes in general, education requirements that you would take and then you're going to build what we call the first story is going to be our business core classes, which if you go to any school in the country or world an you major in business, you're going to take the same business classes at the core level. So you're going to take a little counting, a little marketing, a little financial information systems, etc. You can get that same core everywhere you go and then what you're going to do is you're going to take the 2nd floor of your house if you will will be your major.

We'll get to that in just a few minutes. We also are really proud and excited about our geographic location, because that gives you a lot of opportunities for internships. And just for fun. Obviously, if you go to school in Fredericks Burg, then you're between a couple hours from the mountains couple hours from the beach, one hour from DC, one hour from Richmond. So for those of you who are.

From those areas were not too far away. You can get home easily, but we're just far enough away that your parents might not just drop in on you anytime and then the last thing we emphasize is is the were preparing you. As for competent to become competent, honorable and globally aware leaders. And that's really what we're trying to do here. We want you to leave here being competent and business honorable. You're probably familiar at this point with our honor code, which is very powerful here at Mary Washington.

And we want you to be globally aware because the world is very, very small. Today is we're finding out through COVID-19.

You're gonna make a lot of connections here in the College of business. You're going to do.

Projects with fellow students are going to have opportunities to have.

Part of clubs in the Business School and everything I'm doing tonight focus is really on the business goal and so there you may have broader questions. I'll try to answer those, but really, my expertise is the Business School. So clubs within the Business School projects in classes that you get to work with. The other college students on as well, you're going to make incredible connections with faculty you probably are aware, and part of the reason you're interested in Mary Washington is because we have a very small

Faculty to student ratio. And so you're going to have a smaller classes across Mary Washington, but certainly in the Business School. And that's going to help you because you're going to get to know those professors one on one. They're going to give you great advice. Council. They're going to help you identify internship opportunities, job opportunities, and ultimately, probably write letters of recommendation or service references for you for jobs. So that's really important at Mary Washington.

And you're also going to get connected with our alumni business alumni in our business community of both local Ian in the broader area. We do a variety of programs in the Business School and we'll talk a little bit more about those later, but also back to the getting the projects in classes you're going to have a lot of applied learning, so you might in a marketing class, help create social media strategies for local business. You might in a human resource management class.

Evaluate the human resource practices of a local business and so a lot of our faculty do those kinds of projects which are very applied and give you that opportunity to apply the theory that you've been learning in class to a real situation and that plays well when you go into the marketplace and do job interviews and they say, well, tell me about your experience and you've got some real world experiences there. Whether you've done an internship or how to Java or anything or something like that.

Woodhall is our home we love would haul. It is a we've been in this building about 3 1/2 years. It was previously the campus center and so once the new campus center University center was built a couple of years ago, they renovated Woodard for us and so the reason we love Woodard is because it meets our needs. We have five or six dedicated classrooms for business students that are configured in a variety of ways. We also have five team rooms so students can.

Go in and and um and practice presentations. Study together, work on projects together, whatever in the team rooms, faculty, and staff all have their own private office and what you're looking at right now is what we call our red room. Probably for some obvious reasons. But we also have a stock ticker in there. You see that the stock market was doing pretty well. It was kinda makes that day. It had a little red on it, a little green night so I can walk out into the red room any day and see kind of how the stock markets doing and you probably saw it went up about.

Over 7% today, which is a good news for business business folks, but this is a place where our students hang out a lot. We have sense in this space and it's so that would at all really meets our needs were also if you've been on campus before, you know that Woodard downstairs we have a Vocelli's pizza, another kind of place to eat sushi bar and then also are post offices downstairs. So we kind of one stop shopping you come to wouldn't be there the whole day.

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You when you come to Mary Washington somebody to ask if you could take business classes your first year an yes what you would do is when you complete your survey from the admissions office or doctor o'donnell's office academic services, they're going to ask you if you think you know what you might want to major end and so.

If you know that you think you want to do business, what you're going to do is you're going to be placed in accounting 101, which is in the Business School economics 201, which is macroeconomics, which is not in the Business School at Mary Washington and then you'll also choose a freshman seminar and to earn your way into the Business School, you have to take five classes. The first two account, the two accounting accounting 10102.

Macro and Micro Economics. Annemasse statistics class and then you have to earn a 2.5 in the the average of those five classes and then a 2.0 overall GPA at the University. And so once you've done those two things an have completed at least 27 hours of credit. Whether you've earned those credits at Mary Washington or or earn them while a dual enrollment person, or if if you did I be AP classes whatever.

As long as you have a 27 credits and those two point five and two, oh, you can declare business is your major. So for many incoming students who were coming in either as a first year student or a transfer, well, the first year student, then they're going to. They're going to do that at the end of their first year. Typically, not always, but typically, so that's how you declare business is your major, and then once you say I want to be a business major, then you have these options to major in. You can major in business administration, which is our generalist degree.

Excuse me, quite popular, hands down the most popular major and students like it because it gives them the ability to kind of pick and choose their six major courses too.

Selectives, so let's say you want to be an entrepreneur. You might want to take an entrepreneur Klatt Entrepreneurship Class. You might take a social media marketing class. You might take an HR class so you're picking the classes that you think would best suit your future career path.

Etc.

Second most popular major is accounting we have about.

Uh, about uh accounting and marketing are very, very close together, so students who know that they want to become, for example, a CPA certified public accountant in a big four or regional accounting firm. They're going to major in accounting, and if you do that here at Mary Washington, by the time you graduate you will have had all of the Met the requirements in terms of the number of accounting classes that you had taken, the types of accounting classes that you would take in order to be ready to sit for the CPA.

Damn you would not have completed the 150 hours required to get your CPA, but we can talk about that if that's something that some of you are interested in. Some of our students brings so many AP and IB and dual enrollment credits in that they are able to complete a four year in four years, 150 hours, which has become quite popular here at Mary Washington marketing. I sit like I said, this number 3 in terms of the account, but just maybe 10 behind accounting.

Marketing majors do a variety of things that many of them are going to. Sales social media strategies. Now, those types of things and then international business is a relatively new major and we only have about 7 international business majors. It requires more language classes and also a study abroad experience, and so fewer students do that. But it's the students who do it are good students, so we don't have a finance major here. But do finance every year so.

And we'll talk about that a little bit later when we get to the outcomes page. But students interested in finance will pick the finance in quantitative methods, minor, and if they do that, then they get a lot of the same content knowledge that a finance major would get.

This year we started in conjunction with our universities Center for career professional development, which is our Career Center on campus, something called. We called the edge and if you if you really want to invest in yourself and be ready for the job search and life after Mary Washington, you would complete you would participate in the edge and and like I say, it's a career readiness and professional development certificate program and so.

Yes, I know this is small and it's hard for you to read, but these are the things that you would do each year an we purposely set it up so that it wasn't year by year because some of you may only be here three years because you have so many credits. So basically you do modules and the first module is explore, the second one is developed, the third one is grow and the 4th one is execute and all of those letters form the edge and so again you're trying to do more to prepare yourself to be ready for job search and life. Post Mary Washington.

So we're really proud of this program this year.

Every student who graduates from Mary Washington is, uhm.

Is required to graduate with an experiential learning requirement and it can be.

Fulfilled four different ways in the Business School. Most of our students do an internship. Hands down the number one most popular 1 sample flip through study abroad. We have a handful of students who do and applied research project outside of a class, working with a professor an I've personally never known a student to do service learning in the Business School for their experiential learning. I've listed some of the most recent internships, KPMG and Deloitte, which are big four accounting firms. Love our students.

We have a pipeline to both of those firms, both for internships and permanent jobs. Liberty, Mutual Spotsylvania, Regional Medical Center, the Federal Reserve Bank, GEICO State Farm B 101.5 which is a local radio station. This year we have done as we had one study abroad that went through the United Kingdom during spring break. It was called the business of football and those of you who are big time soccer fans know that around the world. Football is soccer.

Soccer is what we we call it, but they call it football and so I have a professor in accounting who's quite a big fan and so he has every other year. For the last. I guess this is his third trip has taken a group of students and they go and talk to these Premier League Soccer programs and learn about the business side of it. But then they also darn it get to go see some of the games as well. We had scheduled a trip to Paris this summer and.

As you probably are aware, it's been cancelled, everything's been cancelled with travel right now around the world, so one of the questions somebody had asked was Do student. Are students required to do an internship? No, and but we encourage them. It will help you find them, and some students bring us internship opportunities from their hometowns. They know somebody who's looking, but we also find out we can help you find internships here, both during the academic year and in the summer. If that's something that.

It is appealing to you.

Here are our student organizations.

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So you know organizations in the Business School we have an accounting club. We have an investment club. We have a marketing club. Let me talk about those just for 2nd so the investment club is interesting because it just started about a year ago and it started because we had a young man who is very interested in that area and so he found it. You have to find a faculty advisor so he found a faculty advisor in this club met on Friday afternoons at 4:00 o'clock and so somewhere about mid year last year.

The guy who started it. He was a president. He came to see me and he said, we have this this kind of plan, doctor Richardson. We would like to go to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Turns out this young man had at least one share Berkshire Hathaway stock. So he was invited to the meeting. He can bring people so anyway, Long story short, they did some fund raising. We made some investments in their trip and six students from Mary Washington actually got to go to to Omaha, NE lust or last May.

Or the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting they had planned to go again this year. I it's obviously not going to happen given the virus, but there are opportunities to do really cool things. And some of these clubs are marketing club. Couple years ago we have alarms who work at all of the professional sports teams in DC, and so they went up to one of the wizard gain a couple years ago and went and met with the Wizards staff before the game and learned about how they do marketing. And then they went to the game so we do a variety of things with our clubs.

Um of Student Advisory Board is, uh, you apply, and we do pick freshman so and a lot of universities. What the Dean will do is have a student Advisory Board that will be only seniors. and I chose years ago. This is my third Deans job and so I chose years ago to pick a variety of students because it's I wanted a group that was representative of the student body and so we have a lot of freshmen. We have seniors we have.

Juniors and sophomores. We have transfer students. We have people who started here as freshmen. We have people who are really active on campus. People are not so active on campus because I wanted to get a group of people who represent students. So you can apply for that as early as next. You'll start getting information about it this summer. The deadline is like 2 weeks after we begin school in the fall and then later for those women in the group. Tonight we have a women in business program that is.

The students are nominated by faculty to participate in this, and this is an awesome program. We meet once a month with local women business leaders who kind of tell their story about what they do now, but kind of how they got where they are today. So those are the programs, kind of some of the programs in the College of business.

We have a living learning communities to pre business living, learning community an I love this program because what we've learned over the years is that students who participate in this program do a little bit better academically. I think because they're living together, they study together. They can go next door and say, Hey, I don't understand this accounting problem. Can you help me? Because what we do is they live in the same dorm. This next year I'm told it's going to be Mason Hall, which is obviously one of the nicer dorms on campus. So you'll live with people.

You'll take your same freshman seminars together, your accounting and your account Econ classes the first semester together, second semester will take the second accounting and microeconomics.

Again, same classes, same people in your classes, so you get to know this people really well. You're living with a man taking classes with them and you can study together an those four classes that counting in the icons are four of the five requirements required to declare for business. And so if this is something that's interesting to you an you want to do this, you would want to sign up for Professor Kensley's freshman seminar. Course is she teaches one. I can't remember what it's called, but if you look it's one of the two sections she's got two sections.

Is it some about its business topics related? So sign up for those and you will be placed in this living learning community.

So I mentioned earlier that you get lots of ways to connect with the UM alumni so here are 3 ways specifically we have a mentoring program so as early as your freshman year you can say you know I really think I want to be a CPA in a big 4 firm can you get me a mentor who does that and will find you somebody in that that relationship can start developing as soon as your freshman year you can get a different mentor every year of the 4 years you're here assuming you're here for years we also do something we call career chats and it was supposed to be 2 weeks ago and.

It's it's one of the most devastating cancellations of the spring for us. But what we do is the faculty. Almost all of the faculty give up their classes on a 2 day period, and we invite alums back to talk about their career paths and tell us give us careered bison if you want to get into my field of business. This is what you need to be doing while you're in school and oh, these are the things I wish I had done when I was at Mary Washington. You know, really regret not doing this. And I'm really glad I did that and so it helps our students.

Learn about a variety of career paths. It also helps them make connections with alumni who are in the fields that they want to study. They want to pursue after graduation and so that was supposed to be March 25th and 26. I think a couple weeks ago and it obviously was cancelled. I will do it again next year and it happens in all classes. So freshman to senior classes and then last one of my favorite programs that we do every semester is called speed networking and speed networking.

Is where we allow students to kind of get over their fear of talking to strangers. Now I joke with parents a lot of times.

I have children and as children you told your children not to talk to strangers you know bad bad, don't talk to strangers and most of our children internalize that very, very well. And so now you're in college and you need to learn how to talk to strangers affectively and get over your fear of that. So we do this thing where he brings alumni or business community people in just to give our students a chance to practice talking to them. And so we set it up in our classroom.

And it's like speed dating. If you've ever heard of speed dating and so you talk to somebody for four minutes, I blow a wicked little whistle. Then the student moves to the next person and we do it again. And we.

Do it again and we do it again 10 to 12 times until everybody is kind of energy level starts flagging in the in the room and then we all just introduce ourselves to each other. But it's a way for you to kind of get over your fears but also make some connections in the business community and learn about some. Again, learn out some career opportunities that maybe you've never heard of.

This is one of my favorite slides. Obviously I wanted just to share with you what some of our recent graduates are doing. I'll start with the University of Virginia Mcintire School of Commerce, those accounting students who have not finished their 150 hours to graduate from Mary Washington requires 120 hours. So let's say you finish here in accounting and you want to get the 150 right out of school. So many of our students go to UVA, many of them go to William and Mary. Some go to Mason.

To do their their Masters in accounting. So I put you on here is just an indicator that that's what some of our students do.

Um, go masonry and AS pedo are two businesses that students started while they were students at Mary Washington and now are doing get going gangbusters ago Mason. Reason masonry firm they Northern Virginia they lay tile or masonry patios and things like that. The young man Gerber Ortiz graduated a couple years ago three years ago maybe now aspetto the two founders started their program started there.

A company, while they were students there concept started actually in an international marketing class and so they turned it into this bullet resistant.

Company built resistant clothing company is headquarters here in Fredericks Burg and they've got government contracts tracks with.

Lots of different police department's security agencies. And then they do a lot of work in the Middle East with people who who are targets for assassinations, which is kind of interesting. And then you can see the rest of these one of our 2019 graduates just graduated last spring. I mentioned that we don't have a finance major, but a lot of our students go into finance jobs. She's a finance, financial analysts with Unilever in New York City just had lunch with her this Sunday before we were all shut down.

A couple weeks ago she was coming through on her way to go tell work with her parents, their home in North Carolina. I mentioned Deloitte, KPMG there, there, GEICO loves our students. We send a variety of students to GEICO every year. Carahsoft is a Northrup, Groman or both government contractors in our area. Merkel is a marketing firm. AXA is a financial advising firm. Let's see Brinks, the big armored trucks so one of our.

Marketing majors it works for them in Richmond now and the NAV see which is our dog rent at our dog or a Navy base West of here or east of here hires a lot of our students for contract ING positions, and then I guess, said exo, which is our food service provider here on campus. Many of our students work part time at Sodexo while students and then they get hired at in permanent jobs, one of our 2020 graduates just accepted the operations manager position there, so he'll he'll start full time with them after.

My graduation.

We are on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. You can follow me or an the college on these different things and so I'd be happy for you to do that.

And then it's Question Time. So what have I not answered that you need to know before making your decision? So I'm going to go back over here and see if there were any questions that people posted.

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Somebody is this six almost exclusive for business majors. I don't know what you mean by almost exclusive. This program is for business majors or people who want to do business.

The dorms, uhm, the living learning community. There will be other students in Mason. Haul it, for example with our living learning community, but on the Hall that you'll live for the living learning community will just be students who are interested in business and who are taking those freshman seminars with Professor Kinsley.

OK says I'm going to be a computer and just want to connect. Yeah, they'll be lots of opportunities for you to join clubs and obviously making.

The the group projects will be doing not so much a freshman year. Those will tend to jump in and maybe sophomore to junior year. What other questions do you have?

Nobody's got questions.

Oh, what opportunities do you offer for international business students?

Well, you you would a study abroad, so um, so I mentioned only the study abroad opportunities at the Business School does.

But the University does multitude of those every year. In fact, Mary Washington's got a very high percentage of our students who study abroad relative to our size. So for example, doctor signs, who's a professor of Spanish this year, they've had to cancel the program, but for, like, 15 years, he's been taking a group of students for six or five or six weeks to Bilbao, Spain. An that's a program. If you want more of an immersion, you can do things like that, but.

As long as you study abroad and finish the requirements than the International Business Major in the international business major, then you'll have a great experience there.

Let's see.

I'm a first generation student. Was curious what type of careers I could get as a major in Business Administration.

Well, if you go back to the UM.

Let me go back here. If you go back here you could get you could with Merkel.

Merkel, the one of our students, is with Marco from maybe two years ago. He was a business administration major Anna Data Science Minor, which is a popular minor these days, and he's at Marco, Um, Unilever. The woman I mentioned was a finance minor, but she was a business administration major. Lot of our GEICO, our government contract ING Northrop gruman now see all of those were business administration majors. It's the most popular major aren't mentioned.

Amazon logistics, one of our business administration majors, is an operations manager. Now he's been out of school a couple years, but he had worked for many years while he was in college. At Best Buy. And now he's moved to Amazon logistics and he's in the management role there. So most of these jobs up here except for the specialty jobs like in Deloitte and KPMG or business administration majors.

Any idea when the school year will start? We hope the end of August.

I think you know right now, a lot of the big questions about what's going to happen this year, but we're planning for the end of August at this point.

So Jacob, You said, I don't think I got Professor Professor Case F some. I'm not sure Amanda is Amanda's on from admissions tonight. She's a in the missions office. I'm not sure if you can change your freshman seminar at this point or not I don't know that maybe she can.

Maybe she can address that.

Yeah, on the some of you probably already received your survey, there goes my lights at I'm sitting in my office. If I don't move the lights go out.

On the survey will ask you for, I think several options on your freshman seminar choices, and So what you would want to do is indicate you wanted professor Kinsley's.

The number one there and that you wanted to do the living learning community.

Ah.

Brandon wants to know if he can switch to business. So Brandon here's here's the reality. If you come here to Mary Washington, if you put on your survey that you want to do economics, you probably do need to get that switch to business because they're going to put you in economics 201 the Macro Class anyway, but you want to be an accounting as well, so you know.

The other reality is, no matter what classes you get put in and you're going to have a chance to do drop, add and change your schedule. So if you don't get input into accounting 101, then during drop add what you would do is add it. You can. That's not a problem. We should have plenty of seats in accounting 101 for you to add it.

What other questions? Oh um, somebody had asked in the in the pre questions about being a transfer student in your special situation, kind of knowing what's going to transfer the College of business is very fortunate. We have our own dedicated academic advisor.

So once you say you want to do business, Mrs. Rhonda stills will be your your point person for all things academic and she will be the person who who keeps you on track and make sure that you take classes in the appropriate order. This right sequencing and make sure that you do everything you made, all the deadlines and things like that. And so we're very fortunate to have her. You would also want you to clear business as your maid.

You would also get a faculty advisor and then so that person is going to help you kind of figure out career paths and you know when you say. What can I do with this degree? They're going to have a lot more insight into that. The other person that we have in the Business School that will be your person is we have Kelsey Whitaker who is in her title. Is outreach coordinator an karere coat coach and she she works for both the College of business and the Career Center on campus. But she's here in the Business School in Woodard.

And she is here for you to help. Kind of think about how to get your resume ready. Your LinkedIn profile ready all those kinds of things. So she is dedicated to business students over here, so you'll have both Mrs steals your faculty advisor and Kelsey to help you kind of navigate. Kind of where you want to go and how you're going to get there. And I'm told that we are students feel very taken care of over here, and so it makes me really proud that we do that. That good job for our students.

OK.

OK question is I am a Senior High School, have an Associates Degree from a local Community College. Good for you, excellent. do I assume that all my credits will transfer? The question would be which Community College Leora, which? So we have some articulation agreements with a couple of community colleges. But I'm not the expert on that, but what I would recommend that you do is we can get you in touch with Mrs Stills and she can help map your your transcript, your Community College transcript two are.

Requirements here if you're coming from Germanna, for example, yes, all of your credits will transfer. We haven't articulation agreement, but if it's.

Tide water we don't have her. We don't have a thing with them, so here is her email. Let me type in her email.

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There you go.

Uhm, I would like to work in a hospital in medical administration with a business major. Be a good step towards that. Yes, in fact I mentioned the women in business program that we had our January Speaker was the vice president for human resources at Mary Washington Healthcare and she was talking about how the business background that our students have would be really nice fit for them in the administration side, not in the clinical side. We're not. Doctors were not nurses were not.

Radiology technicians that kind of thing, but every if you think about it, it's like it's like when we talk about the students going to the United Kingdom to do the study to study abroad with the soccer teams. Every organization is really a business spaces, and so if you understand a little bit about business, you're going to be able to walk into most any kind of organization and do pretty well. So whether that's Hospital because they have.

Budgets and they have facilities and they have people HR stuff. They saw all kind of everybody's got business principles or foundations there.

Alright, other questions that you have.

We still got about 20 minutes.

So not sure if everybody saw my shirt earlier. This is this year's shirt, I'll just hold it up again.

Designed by students in the student Advisory Board, they kind of collaborated and came up with this shirt.

So uhm, and they wanted red because a lot of things around here are blue, like this shirt I'm wearing right now is blue.

We got this shirt made when we moved in toward a couple years ago because before we had wood or do we didn't really have a place to be for a couple years.

What do I know about the Spain internships? I really don't know much about the Spain internships.

We can get you that information. Are you talking about the study abroad with doctor signs or are you talking about having an internship within a firm in Spain? I think doctor signs. They do both classes and maybe work some, but I just don't know the detail about that.

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Here's how to reach him. He would be your expert on that, he said. Director of the Center for international education. And so he does a lot of has a lot of relationships not only with people in Spain, but other places in the world. We were supposed to have students go to Japan.

So it's a go for the rest of the semester. Did not happen because of coronavirus, so we have. I had students in the Business School who were studying in Spain, the UK, other places in Europe. They were all brought home a couple of weeks ago unfortunately.

If I know I want to room, where do we have to choose the same freshman seminar?

I'm not sure of the answer to that question. Amanda, do you know that?

So we'll see if Amanda can can weigh in on the freshman seminar question. I'm taking a science F some. However, I'm interested in both the business and environmental science. Will I still be able to be on the business path if I take this? Yes, yes, alright. So Devon, yes you can.

Still, do you can? Double majors are popular at Mary Washington, so if you want to do both Environmental Science in business, that would be a great combination for a lot of reasons. So what you would do is you would tell your advisor incoming your freshman seminar professor will be your first advisor. You would tell that professor. This is what I want to do, and they would. They would help you kind of map early.

A path where you can do both, so that's not a problem at all. And even if you don't take the accounting 101 the first semester, you've still got plenty of time to do that. But again, if you know you want to do business coming and we try to go ahead and get you in there.

Um and so Amanda says that you just need to be in the same building on the freshman seminar.

I don't so so if you're if you are taking less, say Professor Kinsley's.

Class your roommate would need to be in another freshman seminar that's housed in Mason, and if that's the case then you can. You can be roommates together.

Um Sports Management Minor.

OK, so great question. Uhm I love this sports management minor because if you are a business major you already have two of the six required classes for the minor taken care of. Because you're a business major, so you would take an intro to Sports Management Class. You would take a sports law class which is taught by Professor Kinsley. Actually, she's a business law professor, but she teaches sports law. You would then take principles of marketing, which is required for all business majors, principles of management, which is required for all business majors.

There's they have a, uh, a class. It's called events and facilities, so you learn how to run event. She learn how to manage facilities, sports facilities, everything from indoor facilities to outside facilities. So two of those classes out of the five are already required for business. So you take those three other three and then you do an internship with a sports organization and that can be anything from high school 2 club sports to professionals to college. So we've had students who.

I had a student this past semester who is doing an internship with the Redskins. Good for him, a business major with him, Sports Management Minor and so yeah, so both we can help you find that internship. But the athletics Department kind of owns a sports management minor and they would be the people that you'll be working with. Help find you that internship.

Um, are you able to do an internship an study abroad? Yes. Study Broads.

Have varying links so you might do one week study abroad during spring break. You might to the extreme would be a semester long at another school, so you would just enroll at another school and we can help you figure all that out. We have lots of agreements with schools around the country around the world. Internships can be done from about the sophomore year on any semester or during the summer, so you know, yeah, you can do both. In fact, we have some students who do multiple internships and study abroad.

Uh, some students do multiple study abroad's it just depends on what you want to do and what your parents will help us financially support.

OK, what else do you need to know?

So are most of you planning to come to Mary Washington? Are you still shopping? You still considering different schools?

Is one of the things I I had a a young man reach out to me recently to say that he really wanted to come to campus and you can come to campus. Obviously campus is not closed but we just there's nobody on campus right now much, and so I would offer that if you decide that you want to come to campus and walks or campus and just see things and whatever. If you'll let me know I'll get on the phone, my cell phone with you. As you're walking through campus and kind of give you a tour by phone if you.

Want to?

If that would help you kind of feel the field the field here, you know I want you to love where you go to school wherever that is. And if Mari washes right for you, I want it to be here because I think you'll have a great experience. The faculty and I'll speak for the Business School, but I really am speaking for the whole campus. The faculty chose to be here because of the type of environment. It is an because they get to know their professors, their students. Excuse me, one of the biggest challenges were having right now with this remote.

Learning being online is that we've lost that.

Day-to-day connection, and so we're really trying hard in the Business School to connect, and so I actually teach a class and my classes at eight o'clock in the morning, and we're doing zoom and and they all show up and we're all kind of glad to see each other because that's kind of normal for us to see each other. 8:00 o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday. But the professors are really sad, just like your teachers in high school or sad and you're sad, and that we can't be face to face. But if you want to come to campus and just roam around and see the beautiful campus.

It is never more beautiful at Mary Washington right now it is the the trees are budding. The Flowers are blooming. So if you want to come down and walk through campus one day on Saturday or something and you want to give me a call, I'll be glad to connect with you and kind of tell you what you're looking at. Is your walking through campus? You can use your phone and show me what you're seeing. and I can say, OK, that's the whatever building that's where you teach. We teach whatever. That's a residence Hall or whatever, so I offered to do that for you.

Let's see, um.

Oh, let's see. Some people are still deciding. Some people are definitely coming good. Um, Sydney's coming basketball. Sidney, I know you. So I met Sydney before she came here to on a recruiting visit and we sat in my office and talked.

Will it be hard to balance the sport with the internship and workload of the business path? I've committed to be on the softball team. Yay, another great sports program. So it depends. Balancing a sport with an internship and workload so I don't think it's it's not a challenge to do that, but you would want to be careful as to when you did your internship. So you might choose to do your internship this summer. Or you might choose to do an internship. That's local where you could zip down and work two hours in the morning.

Before maybe you started your classes at ten o'clock in the morning or something like that, so that you would have your afternoons free, because all of you who are going to play sports know that you basically from about 2:30 on. You need to have your class that you need to have your schedule free to do to do your sports practice is we don't have lights on our outdoor fields and so everybody's got to kind of practice at the same time. And so if you're a basketball player or a volleyball player, you got indoor sports obviously. But still, most of those practice late afternoon as well so.

It's just a timing issue, and again, what we can do Mrs stills is great at sitting down with you and you telling her what you want to do and she'll help you kind of figure out how to make that happen.

Let's see.

Interested in Business Administration Accounting Sports Management? Is there anyway to include all three of them in your course schedule? So here's the thing, you would not do a double major in business administration and accounting. You'll take most of the same classes for both of those. The only thing that will be different is 6 upper level electives in business. And if you're doing accounting, those are going to be prescribed for you. You're going to need to take auditing 'cause That's on the CPA exam. You're going to need to take cost, accounting, accounting, information systems, and so.

You'll be able to have still have some free electives that you could pick up some other classes in business that you wanted to take that are not in accounting, but you would not double major. You still could do your Sports Management Minor, though that's really easy to do.

I mentioned earlier the data science minor. If you have any propensity to do anything with computers, computer science, math. If you have ability in those areas, you might want to look into data science because that is a.

Up-and-coming field and every student who does that minor gets a really, really good job, not not just financially, are really good job, but also something that's exciting and gives you a lot of growth opportunities, and so if that's something that's even you think you might have a Speck of interesting, and I would encourage you to take a look at that as a minor as you come in.

What other questions do you have?

We still got 10 minutes. Don't want to waste this time. We want to get all your questions answered.

What are your biggest reservations about coming to measure Mary Washington? Those of you who have not committed yet?

What what's what's? What's the sticking point?

OK, how many fresh classes does a freshman have? Typically five classes.

Plus a plus, uh?

Typically, five classes fall semester five in the spring and one of the biggest challenges that you'll have is in high school. You've and tool until you've gone online education High School you had about 35 hours a week that you were at school. It was pretty program structured. Maybe if you did a sport or some after extracurricular activities, you had some things after school. When you come to college.

You're only in Class 15 to 16 hours a week, typically on different days and so that that's a real struggle for some of our students that first semester just to kind of figure out how to maintain some structure in their lives and so time management skills are going to be very important, so I would encourage you to have those conversations with your parents the summer or now because I'm guessing you probably learning about a little bit about time management now that you're having to do your education online.

For High School as well, but uhm, So what you want to do is create a schedule for yourself. So if your classes, let's say you got three classes on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, let's say at 911 and 12.

What are you gonna do all afternoon or what do you? What time you get up in the morning and when are you gonna do your studying? And so it's it's tough for a lot of freshmen to make that transition. OK. When do people declare for majors at umw? They declare after they finish 27 hours.

Um, which is typically for most students after their second semester here.

I'm sorry. Why is it for than five? I don't. did I say it was four and then five. I meant that it was five classes at Merritt. Five classes that you would take your freshman year.

The minor I just mentioned was that data science, the data science minor, which is a collaboration between College of business, the Department of math and Department of computer science. So take pulls classes for all of those areas.

Uh, deciding between Jamui Mary Washington interest in the College of business.

Jamie is a great school, just very different than we are just much, much bigger. So um, here you're going to get more of an intimate feel on campus.

Uh, I know the business Dean at James Madison. He's terrific, uhm, but he's got a much bigger operation over there an you probably, as students have said, set in my office and talk to me. I had a seat in a couple of years ago, say to me, you know, I probably would never meet the business. Staying at a bigger school I said, Well, you might meet them, but you probably wouldn't have a one on one conversation with them in their office. And that's an opportunity here. I've got a fresh young man right now who's in my class that I'm teaching in the morning.

Who I met before he came to school here and I knew him all his freshman year. We've talked in my office. We've talked to sophomore year senior junior year and now he's a senior, is already accepted, a job going to move to Charlotte, NC after he graduates going to be a financial adviser. But, you know, that's one of the cool things about Mary Washington as you get to know, the Deans Associate Dean.

And I joke with you. So if you graduate from Mary Washington, you don't know us is because you didn't want to know us because we're, you know, we're very successful and happy. We show up at most of our events, and so you'll always know somebody if you come here.

Um, what classes do I teach? Well, I I teach primarily at every spring I teach professional selling.

And so we learn how to sell and whether you think you do or not, you sell every day. You may not think you're professionally selling and you may not be. But and in the fall semester I teach a one hour class. It's called life and career after umw and it's really a financial literacy job search class for seniors who are about to graduate and go into the workplace. An or clueless about you know things like insurance and how to live on a budget and how to think about retirement when you're 22 and things like that.

But also about how to get a job and what to think about the culture and all of the things that you want to consider and not just salary. So we do a one hour class on that.

Um?

What classes do you suggest students take before declaring while already knowing what they want to do?

Well, so there there's a. There's a schedule of things that you need to take if you're going to be a business major, so you take those things before you declare. But then.

We really encourage you that first year to do general education classes, so take things that are of interest to you that you want to learn about. If you've looked at the catalog, you know that we have, I call it buckets of classes, so you're going to have to. You're going to get to take get the words right here. You get to take, for example, a global inquiry class, something about the global environment. So go ahead and take that take. Take a class, take classes that are of interest to you. Many business majors wait a bit.

Before they take their science sequence, because science can be difficult for some business majors. It's not our thing. It's not the way our brains work, so you might wait till your sophomore year to take that. If you had a lot of high school foreign language, you may not have to take the foreign language when you come here. Now that we have new general education requirements.

So you know just take things that you're interested in, but also that will count towards your degree at Tord progress towards your degree. But again Mrs Stills can help you with that. I'm going to be in the Honors Program, not in that F. Some you talked about is that going to be a problem. Now that's not a problem. That's only if you wanted to live in that living learning community. For the business students, you're still going to take the same classes that you would take, just not with that same group of people. That's not a problem at all. And congratulations on being the Honors Program. We have a lot of business students who do that.

Alright, we have about four minutes or So what other things do you wanna talk about?

Well, I'm very very much appreciate you spending a little time with us tonight. Um, if you need me.

Here is my email, so this is the best way to reach me. That's our website at the bottom but lynn.richardson@umw.edu.

That group of young men on the picture. Those who are freshmen several years ago at a our homecoming tailgate. So we have homecoming every year in October. We don't have football here as you know and so we have homecoming around all the other outdoor sports programs that day and volleyball. Volleyball plays over in Anderson Center, but this was in front of the soccer field. Both men and women's soccer were playing that day and I think rugby plays and maybe baseball and softball have.

Alumni games or something like that, but it's a fun day, but those were three of our freshman. They all graduated last spring, so I still love that picture of them. So if you need me, reach out to me if you know if you want to come down and do that, or by phone, I'm happy to do that, but this is how you reach me. To do that and.

Otherwise will just sign up I guess now.

Thanks guys.