Business Spotlight of the Week

$95,000 Gift Helps Shape Future Scholarship Development

Last week, the Business Department received a gift of stock that is currently traded at $95,000. The business alumnus making the gift prefers to remain anonymous. The gift is to be used as private scholarships for new business majors entering Evangel based on criteria established by the Business Department faculty. Funds not used for the 2012-2013 school year will be carried over to future years.

This gift is a tremendous boost for our department's scholarship program.  We are seeing increases in enrollment and academic performance of current students.  When we allocated scholarships to current students on March 1, we had to take about $8,000 away from the reserves we hold for new students that come in the fall and spring. 

This gift will allow us to make some modest increases in the future and meet the immediate needs for scholarships over the next five years while we move forward with a plan to increase the amount of endowed business scholarships from $520,000 to $1 million over the next 3-5 years. This increase in the endowed scholarship funds will eventually generate sufficient funds to replace the need for the private scholarships coming from this recent gift.

Reminder about Fall Registration

Seniors were supposed to be able to enter their course schedules this past Saturday, but several reported that the system would not let them do it.  I reported this to Information Technology and the Registrar.  Get signed up for an advising conference with your faculty advisor as soon as possible.  Ask him or her directly if he or she doesn't have an advising schedule posted on the door.

Politics and Marketing - An Internship Opportunity

The Institute on Business and Government Affairs will place you in an internship where you will gain valuable business, lobbying and leadership skills. What better place to see the intersection of business and policy than Washington, DC, where government is the number one business? With an IBGA internship you can develop a strategic marketing plan for your client who is lobbying for a bill on Capitol Hill and attend various strategy and meetings with advocacy and lobby groups.  This is an eight-week academic internship program held in Washington, D.C and sponsored by The Fund for American Studies. The program combines substantive professional experience for 30 hours a week with a challenging undergraduate academic experience worth 6 credit hours from Georgetown University. All students are housed on campus in apartment-style dorms.  This summer’s deadline has been extended to March 23, 2012 with generous scholarship funding still available.  Contact Recruitment and Admissions Director Mary Stankus at mstankus@tfas.org or 202-986-0384 for assistance and check out their website at www.DCinternships.org.

Need Assistance Getting Ready for an Internship?

An alumnus sent the following link that provides helpful tips and resources as you prepare for an internship experience. http://theinternview.com/the-internview-crew/

Springfield News-Leader Prints Feature on the Dress for Success Display

The local newspaper printed a nice story about the Business Department's Dress for Success display across from Computer Lab 109.  Check out the following link.
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120305/NEWS04/303050033/dressing-interview-evangel