Summer Program in Florence

I will be leading another group to Florence for six weeks in May and June. The program will provide six credits -- three in business (OPIM 293) and three elective credits (probably in art history or italian culture). You can find more details on the UConn Study abroad website (the link is along the right side of this blog), or by contacting me.

I think the program will also include students from Penn State.

Summer Program at Georgetown

We had a student from UConn attend this last year (contact me if you'd like to talk to them) and he thought it was excellent. Here's the announcement, and they also have scholarship money available.

LIVE. LEARN. INTERN. SUMMER INSTITUTES

This summer: June 9 – August 4, 2007

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

www.dcinternships.org

**NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR EARLY DEADLINE OF DECEMBER 1, 2006**

Sponsored by The Fund for American Studies in partnership with Georgetown University, the Institutes combine substantive internships, courses for academic credit, career development activities, site briefings and lectures led by prominent policy experts.

Students applying by the Early Deadline of December 1, 2006 are given preference in admissions and scholarship decisions and will receive a 5% discount on their tuition balance.

• Internships – Competitive placements with top sites in D.C.
• Classes – Up to 9 transferable credits from Georgetown University
• Housing – Furnished on-campus apartments in the heart of D.C.
• Guest Lectures – With Washington’s top policy and industry experts
• Site Briefings – At the White House Complex, State Department, U.S. House of Representatives, and Federal Reserve
• Leadership & Professional Development – Leadership, mentoring and career building activities
• Networking – Interaction with hundreds of other student leaders from around of the world
• Scholarships – Over half of all students receive full or partial funding based on merit and financial need

Four eight-week programs are offered in the following subject areas:

• Politics and Economics
• Journalism
• Business and Government Affairs
• Nonprofit and Community Service

For more information and an online application, please visit our website www.dcinternships.org or contact Mary Connell, Recruitment and Admissions Manager, at mconnell@tfas.org or 1-800-741-6964.

Please click here for an informational brochure: https://www.dcinternships.org/tfas/brochure/index.asp

Honors program initiatives -- junior/senior year

Students who complete the sophomore certificate, or students who apply in their sophomore year to join the honors program (applications available in the Honors Program office in CUE) will be eligible to participate in the following activities

1. Students will be able to honorize individual courses, but the School will work to make the process more clear for students, especially with the core business courses in the junior year. In addition, the School will identify elective courses that would be available to students in different majors that could be taught as honors courses. Example courses might include: financial statement analysis and investing (accounting); advanced microeconomics or risk management (finance); advanced organizational behavior or business research methods (management); advanced statistics/data mining (marketing/OPIM); spreadsheet modeling and management science (OPIM).



2. The School will continue the "traditional" thesis model where students identify an area of interest and work with a particular faculty member to complete that project.



3. The School will work to provide opportunities for thesis work as part of our experiential learning initiatives. This would include work with the Student Managed Investment Fund, edgelab, and the Financial Accelerator.



4. The School will work to provide opportunities for thesis work as part of summer internship assignments. Companies (or government agencies or non-profits) providing these internships will allow students to do research during the assignment, and students will work with a faculty member to complete the actual thesis.

Honors program initiatives -- sophomore year

During the sophomore year, students will be able to take ACCT 131 and ACCT 200. The School will offer at least one section of ACCT 200 as ACCT 200H, and those credits can be used towards the sophomore certificate. ACCT 131 is taught in large sections, but the instructors may be will to allow a few students to honorize that course.

Honors program initiatives -- freshman year

The School's initiatives include new programs for students in their freshman year.

The University will provide dorm space for Business honors students.

There will also be at least one section of a FYE course for business honors students. This fall there are two sections of the course, titled "A Career in Business as a Calling" and one of the assignments for the class is to read the book If Aristotle Ran General Motors by Tom Morris. The classes meet on Monday and Wednesday at 9:00 and 10:00.

Business Honors Club

Students in the School have a club for students in Honors called Driven. There will be a meeting at 2:00 on Friday, September 29 to discuss the future plans for the club. I will post a note with the results from that meeting, and will also post some information on what the faculty of the School have approved as their strategy for improving and increasing the opportunities for honors students in the school.

Update: seven people came to the meeting, and all agreed that continuing the club was a good idea. The next steps are to talk to people about an officer group to meet the requirements of USG, and to work on a website for the club. I will work on arranging a speaker to come sometime to talk about internships with the club. I think I have someone from UTC who would be willing to come. If anyone has other companies or contacts, please let me know.

Welcome

Welcome to a new blog for the School of Business at the University of Connecticut. My name is Jeff Rummel, and I am the new director for the Honors program at the School, and also for the Study Abroad programs that students in the school attend.

Coming soon will be some information about these opportunities for business undergraduate students to take on additional challenges while completing their undergraduate degrees.

My office is in the OPIM suite, and you can find my email on the official UConn websites (sorry to not post it here, but I'd like to avoid as much spam as possible). Feel free to contact me if something you see on this blog is of interest to you.