hi everyone i'm katina mchenry you are joining us on our september q a with the dean
dean lil mills it's so great to see you we are well into the beginning of the fall semester and
so far how's it going lil welcome gosh thanks katina it is so good to have students back on
campus and our faculty could not be happier to see all of you here i of course you know we just
won our first football game and i surely hope that entire stadium was vaccinated
and careful um but it was a wonderful event and the school spirit was extremely high yeah i think
people are just excited to get back to a little bit of normalcy as as i don't know i think we
have a new definition of normalcy but i saw some of the games over the weekend and uh yeah football
is is in full swing college football well uh speaking of vaccination can you give us a little
update we have a brand new incentive program across campus that uh uh has come from central
office and we've been trying to promote across campus so can you talk a little bit about that
sure so katina the the best mechanism we have to protect our safety and everyone else's is to get
vaccinated and by way of a small inducement for that faculty and staff can upload upload their
vaccination records for a 500 weekly drawing for students my gosh the weekly incentive is 10 000
so i really do want to encourage you to get vaccinated and then upload your record for
a chance at that ten thousand dollars yeah and who doesn't like winnie i mean oh my gosh
yeah it's not funny too some of my favorite game shows growing up where price is right and still
will a fortune like i love when people win so get that card uploaded so you can qualify all right
let's talk a little bit about the utny program that is a partnership that we have with moody
which has been really great so talk a little bit about some of the updates there well this is an
opportunity for undergraduate students and faculty and staff i hope you'll be telling undergraduates
about it the application deadline is september 14th for next summer's class in new york and it's
a wonderful combination of credits in degree advancing classes plus a working internship
plus the entire new york city experience with a cohort of students from across campus
we just welcomed back the macomb students who were there this summer they had a transformative fun
experience and i hope many of our undergraduates will consider going yeah that's a great program
all right lil have you run into any mbas recently and and if you have what are they telling you
gosh it was a great august to see mba students because we bring so many of the programs back for
intensive education one of my events was the executive mba group who had wrapped up their
intensive week and i always want to know what they're learning they had just had professor louis
martin's leadership class and he taught them some great news you can use and i can use that when
you're talking to someone about their task don't get involved and take it onto your shoulder by
saying well let me think about that and get back to you what would be better is to say after you
think about it some more why don't you give me a recommendation and that keeps ownership back where
the expertise is and doesn't put your fingers all over someone else's work and i thought gosh i can
use that i also got to see a lot of full-time mba students who had just completed their three-day
intensive leadership dare to lead class with dr brene brown who is on our faculty this year and
they were overwhelmingly pleased with those lessons and very happy to hear that she's going
to be in and around our campus all year that'll be great yeah it'll be great to have uh people
in the industry leading some of our uh leadership initiatives across mccombs which is really great
so lil we just welcomed a new batch of faculty so talk to me about um what some of their
recommendations so we have an associate dean for research susan berniercheck and just this
week she convened the new research faculty to make brief presentations about their research expertise
and i'm sure she'll be uploading a link to that on the research webpage so that any of you students
faculty or staff could get to know our new faculty and see what they work on i watched it this
morning and opened a dialogue with each of them about their papers and it's just a real source
of interest and curiosity and respect for all of them yeah can you talk about what what they'll
add to um the already very esteemed faculty here at mccombs what what you're excited about
well we've i was excited that a couple of them are in my field of taxation and learning about
how wealth taxes affect long-term savings and then we have a couple of people in management
that are dealing with leadership and strategy issues and again that's helpful but it's people
across all of our academic disciplines i think you'll find it very interesting excellent well
welcome to our new faculty we also want to welcome any new staff that we have
and you've had some interaction with some of our new staff members as well so can you
talk about what they're adding to mccombs and recommendations from them i encourage all the
faculty and students to get to know the staff you work with better as part of our orientation
we asked what hobbies or sports or books they were reading i happen to know that we have a
heptathlete on our staff someone who's learning lace making and then i got a lot of book
recommendations and i really appreciate kelsey curley in the management department recommending
a book the nightingale about the french resistance in world war ii it was a great book awesome well
that concludes our september q a thank you so much for watching you guys this now goes to faculty
staff and students um so thank you for joining us today and thank you love for your time thank you
for joining us today we will see you next time in october for our fall october q a maybe we'll
have like a halloween theme or something let's continue katina all right we'll see you next time