Thank you for joining us for the Poole College of Management information session today.
Today's event is called experience NC State.
We would love for you to experience NC State live, but we're responding to this unprecedented
event.
So I'm excited that you'll be able to join us today to learn about the NC State Poole
College of Management.
You might be wondering "why do we have these events?"
You have the internet.
You have Google.
You can look up things, but we want to have these events for you as admitted students.
So, that you can see, that you can learn, so that you can meet, so that you can see
campus, so that you can learn about what we have to offer both at the North Carolina State
University and the Poole College of Management.
And also for you to meet.
As you have already seen, we've had to get a little creative with this.
So today we're going to focusing on the learn.
Focusing on the Poole College of Management and what resources you would have as a student
in our college.
But we also invite you to join us for future events in the coming weeks, where you can
see and meet our students, faculty and staff in the Poole College of Management.
So let's jump into the learning.
Welcome to Raleigh.
Well virtually.
If you were visiting campus today, you would have an opportunity to see our city, to see
Raleigh North Carolina.
Some of you may be from the Raleigh area.
Some of you may have driven in.
Some of you may have flown in.
But when you're thinking about where to go to college and continue your education, the
location is important and we're excited to tell you a little bit about Raleigh is a great
fit.
As a business student, you have access to a lot of different companies.
You'll see here a number of different companies that have a presence in the Raleigh area.
A lot of these organizations recruit our students for internships and full-time opportunities,
many of our faculty members have experience working with these companies and you may even
have projects in your undergraduate courses where you'll work with these companies.
As you'll see, we're not the only people that think Raleigh's pretty great.
There's a sample of some of the different rankings that Raleigh's recently received
about best places, to live best places for jobs and opportunities.
Hopefully, we're not doing this online learning thing forever, so we want you to come to Raleigh
and see what we have to offer.
So this is the Poole College of Management session, but you might be wondering how does
that fit into NC State?
Maybe you've had some friends that have come to NC State, but they've been a part of another
college on campus.
The College of Education or the College of Engineering.
The Poole College of Management is one of the academic colleges at NC State.
For the purpose of this session, we're going to talk about what resources you would have
access to specifically as a Poole College of Management student.
You'll see here some of the great things that are happening at NC State.
Ways that you can get plugged in, ways that you can meet people, ways that you can be
a part of the great things happening at NC State.
As part of this session, we want to talk about what the resources are for you as a Poole
College of Management student.
So we'll start with a few numbers.
We have about 3300 students in the Poole College of Management.
Those are freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Many of our students start as freshmen.
We also have students that start as on campus transfers that change their major once they're
here, or off-campus transfers that started at another four-year or two-year institution
and then transferred in.
We also have a number of different clubs and organizations; ways that you can
get plugged in within the business school.
As well as professional staff staff that are committed to your success and supporting you
throughout the time that you're here.
So you're thinking, what is this involved me?
I'm one; where do I get plugged in?
There's lots of ways that you can find your path and your place at NC State.
Many of our students our campus leaders.
They have jobs on campus.
They've found their way to get plugged into a big campus and make it their own.
And you're right.
There's one of you and we're excited about the one of you.
For you to find the opportunities that are interesting to you.
Wherever you go to college, we want you to go excited about a few things that you know
that you want to be a part of.
Maybe it's study abroad.
Maybe it's have an internship.
Maybe it's be a part of Greek life.
Maybe it's a part of one of our service learning opportunities, or maybe you don't even know,
you're just ready for the next thing.
So we hope that you come excited about a few things.
And so I want to take this session to show you some samples of things that you might
be involved in once you're here.
There's a lot of terms that we use on campus: majors, minors, concentrations.
What does that mean?
Well, let's jump into what it means for the Poole College of Management.
If you think back to the Fall, when you applied NC State, you put one of these majors on your
application.
Maybe it was accounting, business, economics or maybe these words look familiar.
You chose one of our concentrations: finance, marketing, human resources.
But you'll note that your acceptance letter said that you were admitted into management
first year.
So what does that mean?
It means that at this point in your career, we don't expect you to know the difference
between business administration with a concentration in finance or financial analysis with an accounting,
or economics.
But we know that you have some interest in learning more about the business field, so
we're going to give you that first year to really jump in and explore and then decide
what you're interested in.
So let's talk about that management first year.
Management first year is your first two semesters that you're here.
Meaning you're starting directly in the business school.
A question to ask some of the other schools that you're considering is when could you
start to take classes in the major that you're interested in?
Wherever you go to school, you're going to take a mix of course work in your general
education as well as courses in your area of interest.
And at NC State, we want to start that process during your freshman year so that you can
learn more about it.
Maybe you decide at the end of your freshman year that you still love marketing and this
is the place for you.
Maybe you decide that it's not quite the fit for you and that's okay.
By taking the classes, you can learn and then figure out if this is the best fit.
So, part of that is figuring out the advising support.
You'll have an academic advisor that's in the business school that is knowledgeable
about your coursework.
Maybe you've taken AP credits or IB tests or you've taken some community college courses.
And you wonder how is that going to work?
Does it matter?
Was it worth my time?
It was worth your time because you'll have an opportunity to earn some class credit before
you ever step foot on campus.
Once you get to campus, you'll be working with your academic advisor through our M100
course as you'll see there, that's taught by your academic advisor.
So once a week during your first semester, you'll meet with your academic advisor in
this course as a way to meet other freshmen and get connected with the business school.
Additionally that first semester, you'll take an introduction to business class, and your
second semester, a finance and economics class.
As I mentioned before, you'll take a mix of general education and major-related courses
where ever you go.
So let's back up.
What kind of classes might that mean?
When I say general education, I mean things similar to the courses you're taking in high
school.
Math, Science, English, History.
You'll still take those courses.
All of our students do, regardless of their major at NC State.
But at NC State, you'll have an option to go ahead and start taking classes in a major
that you think you might be interested in.
That first semester, one of those courses will be personal and professional identity
development with your Poole academic advisor.
So once a week, you'll have an opportunity to meet other freshmen that are part of the
Poole class and get to know your advisor and other resources that are available to you
as a Poole College of Management student.
Additionally, you'll take an introduction to business class to learn about the variety
of opportunities within the field of business.
Second semester, you may take an accounting or an econ class.
But ultimately at the end of that first year, we want you to explore each of these courses
and then select your major.
So let's recap management first year.
You're going to take a mix of courses in general education and begin to explore courses within
the business school.
So at the end of your freshman year, you'll choose one of the three majors: accounting,
business administration or economics.
After taking those courses and deciding which of these majors is best for you, you'll be
able to move on to dig deeper into that major as you explore.
So for the purpose of this example, let's say you choose business administration.
As you progress in your coursework sophomore and junior year, you'll take courses in the
different areas within business.
A finance course, a marketing course, a human resources.
Some of those you may be really excited about, some you may not know that much about right
now.
That's okay.
That's why you take courses in them.
But at the end of your time taking those courses, you'll have an opportunity to choose one of
those to concentrate in.
So we started this with a lot of different words: majors and concentrations.
But as you'll see a major is a large group.
A concentration is an opportunity for you to get more specific into something that you're
interested in.
When you join us for one of our calls later with our current students, I would encourage
you to ask them, "what did you major in?
What did you concentrate in?
Is it the same thing that you would have thought you were doing as a high school senior?"
That's part of the fun of college.
It's exploring new things and trying it out and we're excited to see what you're going
to figure out.
Some of you may have joined in for different breakout sessions of some of our campus resources.
NC State has a variety of different resources for our students.
The Career Development Center, the study abroad office, academic advising, lot's of different
things are happening and are available to you.
As a Poole student, you'll have some of our custom resources that are offered within Nelson
Hall, which is the home of the business school, specifically for you.
So let's take a second and look at what that looks like for a Poole College of Management
student.
We've talked a little bit about your first year in terms of academics.
Some of the classes will be similar to high school in continuation.
You'll have the opportunity to track courses and topics that maybe you haven't explored
yet and are excited to start.
But there's also a complete part of the experience that we want you to start thinking about,
how you'll make the most of your time at NC State and the Poole.
This is a graphic that you'll see around our building a lot.
We talk about the academics being the foundation of your experience at Poole.
And then we talk about this idea of the four I's.
Inclusion, involvement, international, internship.
Even as you see that, you're probably thinking of a few things that you may want to do or
lean into to learn a little more about.
So let's talk about what that might look like during your first year at NC State.
When we think about resources that we want to tell you about at Poole, there's so many
things.
Each of these words here we could do a whole presentation on.
But this graphic is a way of representing of what we like to call the Poole experience.
You'll notice the foundation is academics, that's why you're here.
We want you taking courses, learning about your future careers, learning about the way
business works.
There's also some other things that complement that to make the complete the experience during
your time at Poole.
We're going to quickly go into each of these, but we'll have future opportunities for you
to join in on video calls to meet students that have engaged in these different resources.
Academics.
As we've shared, there's majors and concentrations.The breadth, meaning that you can explore the
options within the business school before you go deep into a major and concentration.
And you'll also hear some themes that are woven throughout our curriculum.
Analytical thinking and entrepreneurial mindset.
Having an entrepreneurial mindset doesn't mean that we're expecting everyone to start
their own business, but it means that we're getting our students to think about problems,
problem solving, ways that they can add value to organizations.
If this is something that excites you, this could be a great fit for you in Poole.
Inclusion.
We know that there's a 100% chance that you're going to work with someone that's different
than you.
Maybe you'll live with them, be a part of the team, be a manager, lead a group of people
that have very different life experiences from you.
One of the great things of being a part of a big campus at NC State is getting to meet
and interact with people that have had very different life experiences from you.
To live with them.
To do life with them.
You'll see some of the numbers here, but what we want you to think about is regardless of
your background, how you're going to bring your whole self to NC State.
How your family interactions, where you lived, what your school environment, your perspective.
How that adds and contributes to strengthening the community in the Poole College of Management.
For involvement, many of you have been very involved in high school.
You've done clubs, you've been a part of leadership organizations.
You've have volunteer experiences.
And we want you to think about transitioning that into your college experience.
One of the things I'll notice: quality vs. quantity.
More is not always better.
You'll see the number that there's 900 clubs.
We don't expect you nor want you to be in 900 student organizations.
But you do have the opportunity to get connected to something that's interesting to you.
Maybe it's something that's personally interesting to you.
Maybe your faith, maybe a community organization.
Maybe a way that you can continue your instrument that you play or play on a sports team through
our intramural or club sports.
The personal involvement is a great way and an important way for you to get connected
to the campus community.
Additionally, we want to encourage you to get connected to something within your academic
or professional interest.
Within the Poole College of Management, we have a number of organizations, like the American
Marketing Association or the Investors Club or the Black Business Student Association
or Women in Business or the Accounting Society.
Lots of ways that you can find your people within the Poole College of Management.
Welcome to 2020.
Where all business is part of the global economy.
During your time in Poole, we want to expose you to a variety of different ways that you
can experience business outside of the context of campus.
Maybe you study abroad, maybe you're a part of our Alexander Hamilton scholars.
Maybe you do our dual degree program, where you can do two years at NC State, and then
your junior and senior year in France, Spain, Germany, Italy or China.
There are lots of opportunities.
This is a particular session that will be happening in the coming weeks for you to hear
from students that have studied abroad.
Why did they study abroad?
How did that add value to their experience?
Internships.
In addition to the university's Career Development Center, we have a Poole Career Center located
right in Nelson Hall.
The Pool Career Center's primary goal is helping get you connected with companies that you
can work for.
Maybe it's on a short term basis like an internship.
Maybe it's for full time opportunities after graduation.
But as you learn more about your person and professional interest, our career team is
committed to helping get you connected to companies.
You'll see here a sample of the different companies.
Each of these companies have been on NC State's campus already this year in 2020.
Maybe they've been part of our career fair.
BAck in February we had over a hundred companies that were here on campus to recruit our students.
Maybe they've done information sessions, or interviews.
I know at this point you're thinking about where you're going to go to college, but we're
thinking about where you're going to go after graduation, and these companies are just a
sample of some of the different places that you may explore after you graduate from NC
State.
So that was a sample of some of the different things we have happening here in the Poole
College of Management.
We're eager to tell you more about it, and we want to connect with you so that you can
learn more based on you personal and professional interest.
When I started earlier, I said "why do we have these events?"
WE want to give you an opportunity to see, to learn and to meet.
Hopefully this session has given you an opportunity to learn about the different resource we have.
And we're excited to see and meet you online, in virtual settings in the coming weeks.
Look out for an email soon with details about ways to connect with our current full students.
We're excited to meet you, online.