A big thanks to the four experts, Kirk Sears, Jody Farmer, Kay Robinson and Bo Burch and the moderator, Dr. Jessica Magnus for helping make the panel informative and lively.  Approximately 50 people attended the panel discussion and topics included: the Wilmington job market, landing an interview, benefiting from your new MBA in your current organization, the effects of Myspace/Facebook, maximizing your positives and minimizing negative items on your
resume. 

Prior to the panel, the experts reviewed over thirty resumes at three minutes a piece in the "Resume speed dating" portion of the program.

Overall, the feedback to the program was excellent and the experts all wish to attend next year.

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When: Saturday April, 12, 2008

• 8:00 am: Registration

• 9:00 am. Shotgun Start

Where: Castle Bay Country Club

Format: Captain's Choice - Each player hits one ball within a club length of the best ball.  Teams must putt out.

• Mulligan and Ladies Tee tickets will be available for purchase
  
• Entry Fee of $75 includes a round of golf, use of a cart, on-course beverages, and lunch at an awards banquet with a chance to win door prizes.
  
• There will also be a long drive, longest putt, and closest-to-the-pin prize.
  

If you would like more information on sponsorship please goto the following link:

http://uncwmbaa.org/filemgmt_data/files/sponsor_letter.pdf

All proceeds benefit the MBA program at UNCW's Cameron School of Business.

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For any non-golfer who would like to just come to the luncheon you may also do this as well.

• Please join the MBAA Association at Castle Bay Country Club at 1 o'clock following the golf tournament on Saturday April 12th. Your $15 fee will cover catered barbeque lunch with desserts, entry into all prize drawings, and a donation to the MBAA organization. All the golfers from the tournament will be attending the lunch, and this a great opportunity to be involved with the event, even if you're not a golfer.  You can register and pay via paypal by clicking on the Register for Tournament link above.
  

The holiday party was well attended and a lot of fun.  Thanks to George Trifoli  for all the hard work setting everything up.

Photos available in the gallery.

Wilmington, N.C. - The Cameron School of Business at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is listed in the 2008 edition of the "Best 290 Business Schools," published this month by The Princeton Review. It is the first time UNC Wilmington has been included in this annual publication. UNCW's listing focuses on the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.

The Princeton Review compiles its information from surveys of 19,000 business school students and school-reported data. Strengths of UNCW's program that are highlighted include:

• Hands-on projects with local and regional businesses

• Faculty who are accessible and care about student success

• A high level of student participation and learning coupled with an understanding of the pressures on students who work full-time

• Strong student diversity in experience levels, age and industry segment

"This listing is recognition of the quality and 'real world' focus of our MBA program, which gives students the tools they need to be successful in a variety of business settings," said Dean Larry Clark. "We give our students hands-on experience in actual business situations to help them develop effective decision-making skills."

The program provides much of this business experience through the MBA Learning Alliance, which matches student teams with regional firms for a 13-month study of the firm's business processes and competitive environment. This is followed by an industry practicum, in which students take on a consulting project for a regional business, not-for-profit or public sector organization.

"Working on real projects facing real businesses distinguishes UNCW's MBA program from those of other institutions," said Vince Howe, associate professor of marketing and director of the MBA program.

The Princeton Review agreed, noting that students surveyed said "practical application with actual business" is a strength of the curriculum and also that "the program is evolving and changing as the needs of students change."

Students from any undergraduate background may enroll in the MBA program, and approximately 70 percent of students come from academic fields other than business, including engineering and science. The average age of students in the part-time, evening program is 30, and most are looking to immediately apply their graduate school experience in their current professional positions.

"This program allows students to very quickly apply what they are learning in the classroom in an actual business environment," said George Hollen, president of the MBA Association, who works at PPD in Wilmington. "We learn from experience how a textbook theory will or will not work within a variety of organizations and industries. It's an MBA program specifically designed for the working professional."

UNC Wilmington's new International MBA program, which began in the fall of 2007, is also mentioned in the Princeton Review report. This program, which offers dual degrees with several universities in Spain, Russia and other countries, requires residency abroad and is open to students with undergraduate degrees in business.

For more information about UNC Wilmington's MBA programs, go to www.csb.uncw.edu/mba or contact Karen Barnhill, graduate programs administrator, at 910.962.3903 or barnhillk@uncw.edu.

Media contacts:

Dr. Vince Howe, MBA director, Cameron School of Business, 910.962.3882 or howe@uncw.edu

Dana Fischetti, manager of news and media services, 910.962.7259 or fischettid@uncw.edu

http://appserv02.uncw.edu/news/article.asp?ID=2222

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Update:

We had a great turnout, 11 MBA'ers and a bunch of significant others by our count, check out the photos in the Gallery.

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Thanks to everyone who came out the the first social event at the Cellar on Friday night. There are some photos, including one of George H. being a good president and kissing a baby. The photos are available here (Gallery)

If you have any comments about the social, please comment on this story below.

More info on future social events coming soon.

George and I have been working on a diverse plan of events for the year coming up and are trying to make decisions based on the results of the survey. (http://www.uncwmbaa.org/survey/results/2007-ideas/statistics.php)

We plan to rotate social events between class nights and non class nights, near the beach, downtown and school, weekends and weekdays, and to try and do something on a Saturday afternoon.

We think you will like the first event, even if you are not a bar person, as the MBAA has a reserved area outside, and there is great 80's band playing for free around the corner on the river after the event.

Also, the response to the survey showed that people are very interested in networking events and speakers. We are planning to have 3 before-class speakers starting this fall with topics related to business.

We are working with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations to plan events the will compliment your MBA experience.

Please send us your comments and ideas or if you have anyone you would like to have as a speaker their contact information.

Dear Cameron MBAs,

Congratulations on the completion of Summer I, and here’s to a successful Summer II!

As you are considering all the wonderful destruction rituals you could conduct with those old textbooks, consider this:

Donating them to the MBAA will generate money that will be put back into our MBA experience - which might be a better option for you than selling them back to the bookstore.

If you don’t want to keep your books, and you’re not happy selling them back to the bookstore for peanuts, we’d like for you to donate them to us.

Our plan is to sell them at the highest return possible in order to generate cash for some of the MBAA projects we’re planning for this year, like informative guest speakers, social events (both adult and family-oriented), and the annual golf tournament.

One of our goals is to start an emergency grant fund and an anonymous application procedure for any Cameron MBA student who might need financial help during their studies.

If you can help, here’s what to do: Simply drop your books with Anne or Karen in the Graduate Programs Office (CIS building) between now and July 3.

We hope this will be an easy way to get rid of the textbooks you don’t need any more, and it will help us accomplish all the goals we’re pursuing this year.

Best regards,

Ann Berry
Fundraising Chair
MBAA

PS - We plan to update you during summer session II at uncwmbaa.org and via email to let you know how much you helped us raise. Thanks again.