Business Learning Community  

Join this group if you want to:

  • Tour local businesses and meet with the management teams to learn more about business.
  • Gain the tools, knowledge, and perspectives you need to become a leader within the business profession
  • Spend time meeting and creating relationships with current and future professors.
  • Attend social events with fellow freshmen business students.
  • Learn new study skills during informal workshops.
  • Begin exploring career paths in all areas of business.
  • Receive one-on-one attention from a Learning Community Mentor, who is also a business student.
  • Participate in mock interviews and resume workshops to help you prepare for applying for internships and other employment opportunities.
  • Build long-lasting relationships with students who have the same goals and aspirations as you.

The Business Learning Community is located in Sechrist or McConnell halls.  Students majoring in accounting, business economics, computer information systems, finance, management and marketing may want to consider joining this learning community.

Priority enrollment

Seats in certain high-demand, major-based classes will be reserved for Business Learning Community residents. Your adviser will help you enroll in these courses.

Seats will be reserved in:

Fall semester:

  • MGT 101 – Introduction to Business: introduces the functional areas of business management and how they interrelate to maximize wealth in a socially responsible way.

AND

  • CIS 120 – Introduction to Computer Information Systems: introduces computer and information systems, including the development and hands-on use of applications designed for communications, decision support, and database management.

Spring Semester:

  • ACC 205 – Legal, Ethical, Global, and Regulatory Environment of Business: introduces thebasics of the environment of business, including legal and ethical issues and the regulatory and global environment of business that affect business policies and decisions.