Business Administration

With the help of Melissa Marietta, we’ve again identified some outstanding internship opportunities.  If you’re interested in finance, sales, marketing, health care, or entrepreneurship, please contact Melissa or me.

It’s truly the case right now that we have more internships than we can fill.  Some even pay.  There’s simply no better use of your time than completing a good internship.

Just one example:  Some folks from Northwestern Mutual spoke to my classes today.  They have internships all over the country.  These pay.  The company ends up hiring around a third of interns for full time jobs after college.  And those jobs can pay very well.

Quit that job at Burger King and become an intern!

Businesses keep coming to me looking for interns-- this time a resort in the Catskills is interested in someone who may like to explore event planning (weddings, etc.).  See me if you’re interested.  This sounds like a good one.

The new BUSA curriculum allows you to take four 300- or 400- level electives.  For Spring, we have four courses scheduled that could count as electives:

*BUSA 311 - Business Law II (no pre-reqs; you don’t need to have taken Business Law I to get in)
*BUSA 348 - Statistical Analysis in Operations (pre-req:  Finance)
*BUSA 381 - Human Resources (pre-req: Intro to Business)
*BUSA 441- International Business (2 sections offered; pre-reqs: Marketing & Finance)

Remember, an approved Internship taken for credit can also count as one of your four electives.

We have more internships available right now than we can fill-- so if you’re interested, please see me or Melissa Marietta, the College’s internship coordinator.  Internships are available for Fall, J-term, Spring, and Summer.  We generally like students to have junior standing… but if you’re a sophomore with an outstanding GPA we can talk.

Congratulations to student Ryan Twardowski (’10, double major in BUSA & ACCO), who was recently awarded a 2009 fellowship from Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management, and Administration.

Local honor society chapters-- of which there are approximately 300-- were each allowed to nominate just one student for this honor, which includes scholarship money.  An international panel then reviewed the nominations to determine the most worthy candidates.  Ryan was one of only ten students worldwide to earn this prestigious recognition.

Great work Ryan!

We’re excited about the launch of our new Business Administration curriculum.  But it’s inevitable that some students will be part-way through the old curriculum, and naturally have questions about what the change means to them.  Here are some answers.

First, if you are a continuing BUSA major, you have an option:  switch to the new curriculum or stay with the old.  It’s up to you.  As a practical matter we expect most students to change to the new, since it’s more flexible and there’s really no downside.  But it’s a free country, and it’s up to you.

One question that has arisen is what to do if you are already partway through the Accounting sequence-- that is, you’ve taken ACCO 141 (Principles of Accounting I) and want to know whether you need to take another Accounting course, since the new curriculum only requires ACCO 101.

The answer is yes, you do need another course.  ACCO 141 alone isn’t good enough. Your options now are:

1) Take ACCO 142 (Principles of Accounting II).

OR

2) Take ACCO 101 (Financial Accounting).  It may sound strange that if you have already taken a “higher” level ACCO course you would now need to take 101… but it has to do with topic coverage.  ACCO 141 does not cover corporate accounting, and you really need that for Finance and other future courses.  ACCO 101 covers this crucial area.  There will be some topic repetition between 141 and 101—but most students will likely benefit from that.  And 101 and 141 are unique enough that you can receive credit for both courses, so don’t worry about that.

If you are a transfer student who has taken Accounting elsewhere, submit your course descriptions to me and I’ll make a case-by-case decision.

As always, see your advisor or me (we’re all on the second floor of Golisano Hall) with any questions.