student organizations
Wayne Hoyer and Lamar Johnson from the McCombs marketing department tell us what's blossoming in 2013.
Most local businesses can’t afford consultants, but one undergraduate organization has found a way to make it happen.
Junior Bekah Thayer partnered with a local non-profit to promote healthy living to college students. This is all in day's work for Thayer and her peers with the Student Consulting Initiative.
The third year in the Leadership Program at McCombs encourages students to demonstrate their commitment to issues relevant to the multiple communities in which they belong. Two students share thoughts on their experiences.
Nineteen students in the Leadership Program spend their spring break teaching entrepreneurial and job skills lessons in Belize.
Four-year Leadership Program teaches students individual, organizational, community and global leadership, culminating in a senior trip abroad.
Alejandra Salinas, a McCombs School of Business junior, has been named by Politics Daily’s The Cram as one of Five Rising Stars Age 25 and Under. Salinas is running unopposed for the presidency of the College Democrats of America (CDA) and will become the first Hispanic president in the organization’s history. She currently serves as the chairwoman of CDA’s Hispanic caucus.
The CleanTech Group, an MBA student organization at McCombs, was honored as the Best Graduate Organization at The University of Texas during the annual Swing Out Awards' Evening of the Stars ceremony on April 22.
Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley opened his presentation March 22 with a discussion about Lehman Brothers and the recent report that showed Ernst and Young may have committed malpractice as Lehman's accounting firm.
The Undergraduate Business Council and the Undergraduate Program Office honored 10 faculty members March 22 for their outstanding achievements in the classroom. These faculty members received the highest scores on selected criteria from the Course Instructors Surveys completed by students for the fall 2009 semester.
