Business week includes service, networking
A recycled percussion concert and a university-wide service project are on the schedule for The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business’s annual Business Week, Sept. 10-14.
Other activities during the week include an ugly tie dance on the Quad, the first common hour speaker and an invitation-only networking dinner.
Business Senator Jeff Parker said the dinner is key event aiming to helping student make connections that will be valuable to them in the future.
“Graduates and undergraduate students can sit down with business leaders and business professionals and be able to meet them and get to know them one on one and find out what it takes to become a part of their organizations,” Parker said.
Kinsey Eborn, a member of the Business Council, said the event she’s most looking forward to is the percussion concert.
“It’s one of the biggest concerts we have on campus throughout the entire year,” she said.
Parker said the week-long celebration has taken a large leap in regards to activities and promotion this year.
“Only in the past couple of years has it grown to be this large of an endeavor for the college to showcase what we have to offer, said Parker. “Over the past three years it’s really grown substantially.”
Parker said the college has specific goals they want to meet this year.
“We want to showcase the business school to the university and everything it has to offer,” he said. “We’re especially interested in attracting undeclared majors as well as people interested in a dual major in business.”
He said another purpose of the week is to create unity amongst business students that will help them get more involved in their education.
“They say half of education happens in the classroom, the other half is everything else you do,” Parker said. “The business school has lots of incredible opportunities for students and our goal is to really get students involved in some of those extracurricular activities.”
Students will be able to check out different clubs and organizations within the business school that they can get involved in and more fully enjoy their time at the college, Parker said.
“We’re having a student involvement expo on Monday where all the clubs and different organizations in the college can actively recruit people,” Parker said. “Our hope is that uninvolved students can kind of find their niche and what they would enjoy participating in.”
One of the biggest events of the week will be focused on helping others out. There will be a service project on Tuesday to benefit the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
“They’ve requested some specific items from us and we’re really excited to be able to donate those to them,” Parker said. “That’s in part to show our appreciation to Jon M. Huntsman for his donation and involvement in our school.”
Eborn said whether students are business majors or in another field, there are events for everybody to enjoy.
“It’s a great opportunity for freshmen to see what the business college is really all about as well as other students to get a feel for what the business college is, what we stand for, and how we like to help out not only USU, but everybody else.”
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