The Business Exchange is a chronicle of life in the Department—it describes activities within the classroom and without, highlights the opportunities available to business students, and provides notice of notable events at the College.
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Winter Break!
After a strenuous fall semester, business students at Elizabethtown College are enjoying a well-deserved winter break. Lectures are over, presentations have been made, finals taken. But they will soon be back for more! On Jan. 19, classes resume, and students will plunge headlong once again into a maelstrom of intellectual fervor, extra-curricular activities and endless lattes (at the Blue Bean). They will be taking courses in their majors—accounting, business administration, economics, and international business—as well as courses in the College’s General Education program. See for yourself what courses are being offered, what the requirements for the academic programs in business are, and suggested four-year plans for majors and minors. Visit Advising CENTRAL! at http://www2.etown.edu/business/Programs/Advising/index.html.
Department Seminars
The Department of Business hosted a number of speakers in the fall. These talks are attended by students and faculty, and topics ranged from family business relationships to learning from the charades and escapades of Bernard Madoff. To see the complete list of speakers, visit http://www2.etown.edu/business/Faculty/Seminar.
The Hoover Center for Business
The Department of Business is housed in the Hoover Center, a state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2006. Classrooms in Hoover are wired, bristling with the latest technology. Several rooms, lounges, and nooks and crannies throughout the building offer plenty of opportunities for reading quietly or meeting in small groups. You will also find recent issues of The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes and The Economist (and if you are lucky, issues of MAD) scattered in the reading areas. Two large-screen television sets are constantly tuned to CNBC, showing the latest contortions in the stock market.
Jobs & Internships
The Department of Business conducts job fairs to bring employers to campus. In the fall event, several regional accounting firms came to the Hoover Center to engage with our students and discuss career opportunities with them. In the spring, we are planning a similar event, but now extended more broadly to all business students—several regional businesses will be on hand in March to interact with our students. These job fairs are being conducted jointly with the College’s Career Services, and provide significant opportunities for our students to talk to potential employers. The Department also maintains a listing of internships and jobs at http://www2.etown.edu/business/internjobs.
Notable Speakers on Campus
In November we had the pleasure of hosting a Nobel Laureate, Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, who gave a public lecture titled "Ethics and the Global Economic Crisis". In 2007 Dr. Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in economics. A video of the lecture is available at http://www2.etown.edu/business/Events/StiglitzLecture/index.html.
For Prospective Students: Visiting the Campus
Have you visited our campus yet? Sat in on a class? Had lunch with current students? Talked to Financial Aid? Arrange all this with one trip to the college’s Admissions Web site. Visit http://www.etown.edu/Admissions.aspx.
Contact Us
The Department of Business Web site is www.etown.edu/business . There you will find all sorts of information about the department—study tours, course requirements, internship opportunities. You can also contact us by calling 717-361-1270.
