· Time for Spring Registration!
The registration system for spring courses will open to seniors on Saturday, October 29; for juniors on November 5; for sophomores on November 12; and for freshmen on November 19. These schedules are based on your classification this semester.
That means that you can go through your student portal to submit a spring schedule of courses at 12:01 a.m. on those Saturdays. The schedule you submit has to be approved by your faculty advisor before you have a seat reserved in those courses. Some courses fill up quickly. Getting your schedule approved as early as possible helps assure that you will get the courses you want.
You should meet with your faculty advisor to agree on a schedule before entering it. Business faculty advisors have been asked to put sign-up sheets on their door of available advising times.
· Freshmen and Sophomores Need a History or Government Course
Students coming in under the new Frameworks general education requirements will need a history or government course to meet the Social Science elective requirements. Freshmen and sophomores should make sure that they are including one of those courses in their schedules, ideally during the first four semesters. The changes made to the General Education program in the past two years created some confusion for all of us. The Business Department initially thought that students would have their Social Science elective requirement met by taking Macroeconomics and included that assumption in some of our early degree sheet changes. We have been corrected. The degree sheet has been changed and business department faculty advisors are now aware of this requirement.
· Special Spring Courses
We have two exciting courses that are offered only in the spring that juniors and seniors should consider as electives. These two courses are also required as port of our Human Resources Minor:
o MGMT 460: Organizational Leadership taught by Mr. Dana on MWF at 9:00-9:50.
o MGMT 470: Workforce Selection and Development taught by Mr. Papit on TTR at 11:00-12:15
· Conference Day Seminars with a Business Focus
Conference Day is just one week away on Wednesday, November 2nd. Regular classes are cancelled that day and special 50 minute seminars on a variety of topics around the Conference Day theme of "Redemption." We want all business majors to attend at least one of the following two sessions sponsored by the business department.
o Make Your Coffee Count - Learn how Eurasia Café: Coffee and Tea Company is changing lives by giving back to faith-based social justice causes and how you can be a part. Charity Reeb, a business alumnus, shares an exciting story about how she has mixed her expertise in branding and passion for the lost and hurting to develop a for profit company that is focused on redemption.
· Creating an Organizational Culture of Redemption – You have never seen a session like this on the Evangel campus! We are using audio/video networking to bring a panel of four senior executives from Denbury Resources, a publicly held energy company, into a classroom to interact with our students. The CEO, CFO, CIO, and chief internal auditor of Denbury Resources are all Evangel business who will share how they strive to create an organizational culture that develops and restores its people.
· Improve your grades with Flash Card Tool
Senior business major Dalie Hand highly recommends setting up a free account with StudyBlue.com so you can create flash cards to study for exams and quizzes. The program will run through the flash cards randomly and actually score your performance.
· Spring Break in Instanbul!
October 28 is the deposit deadline if you are interested in the intercultural experience in Istanbul for Spring Break being co-sponsored by the Business Department. The cost of the trip has been reduced to $2,500 and this cost can be added as a course fee for those who are taking Global Connections. If you are interested, but cannot make the October 28 deposit deadline, please e-mail Bernie Dana soon. We may have some resources to help provide assistance for this trip.
· Washington Studies Trip Invitation
Business plays a huge part in government…or at least it should! Sophomore, Junior, and Senior business majors with a 2.75 GPA or higher are invited to be a part of the two week Washington Studies trip on February 28-March 10. The first week is touring and meeting with various government officials and groups and the second week is working with a government agency or non-profit organization. Contact Mrs. Collier or Dr. Sanders in the Social Science Department to get more information and pick up an application.
· Course Withdrawal Reminder!
October 28 is the last day for students to withdraw from a class with a "W." After that date, a withdrawal will be accompanied with a WP (withdraw passing) or WF (withdraw failing). The withdraw failing will affect your GPA and only a retake of the class with a higher grade will eliminate the effect.
· Explore Marketing!
Dr. Wubbena, Mrs. Fletcher, and Dr. Maynard have developed and begun implementing proposals to make our marketing program one of the best available. These initiatives are focused on providing various "tracks" that link to vocational areas and creating partnerships with businesses to enable students to apply what they learn. The tracks currently being discussed with students are event marketing such as hospitality, sports, music, fine arts; promotional strategies such as retail, sales, promotions; social enterprise; and international marketing. The department will consider some new courses to enhance these tracks.
Please see Dr. Wubbena or Mrs. Fletcher if you are interested in exploring the various marketing major and vocations opportunities to which it leads.
· Need Help with a Course?
Some courses can become difficult when they don’t suit your strengths. If you are struggling and would like to have some assistance, consider the following alternatives. If you need some temporary help on a particular issue, see if the lab assistant on duty in ZM-109 can help you. Many of our lab assistants are upper division students who have already completed the courses that may be causing you some problems. If the general subject matter is difficult for you, contact the personnel in the Academic Support Center on the second floor of Zimmerman Hall (southeast corner). They have tutors available for courses at no cost to you.
· Seniors – Get you Graduation Papers In!
Seniors intending to graduate in May 2012 or the summer following need to go to their student portal and complete the Intent to Graduate form, pick up the senior paper forms from Records and Registration office (Riggs lower level), and bring those forms to Mrs. Campbell for instructions on how to complete. The Business Department is the only department that provides significant assistance in completing the graduation papers. You do not need to see your advisor before completing these papers.
· Department News
Your Business Department is continuing to improve our programs in a number of areas. We are:
o Simplifying course offerings by eliminating some of the confusing duplicate offerings in the course schedules.
o Exploring the need to offer an Ethics course as a core course in our curriculum. This helps meet the growing demands for this course for public accounting certification and for some MBA programs.
o Exploring the possibility of changing Accounting Information Systems to a Management Information Systems course to address this vital information for all business students.
Bernie Dana
Chair, Business Department
