INSID E THIS ISS UE:
July 26, 2013
FOCUS
Table of Contents:
RAMDITION Mentoring Program Announced
NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
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Message from Dean Bailey
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Tim Taylor Offers Fellowship Advice
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Camp Snowball Provocation Speech
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Where in the World
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New RAMDITION Mentoring Program Coming in Fall 2013
University College and Lifelong
Learning (UCaLL) is implementing
a new freshman mentoring
program entitled the RAMDITION
Mentoring Program beginning fall
2013. The program is designed to
enhance the initial experience of
students entering WSSU and to
foster a nurturing collegiate
environment for them. The
program will kick off with an
opening dinner entitled “The
Captain’s Table” Sunday, August
11th.
Dean Jessica Bailey has
volunteered to serve as a mentor
for this new program. She will be
assisting a group of approximately
twenty students throughout the fall
2013 semester with collegial
support and encouragement.
Mentors will be meeting with
mentees one hour once a month,
keeping them engaged by sharing
lunch together, grabbing a snack,
taking a walk, visiting a local
attraction, or sharing dinner. All
will share in an end-of-semester
Volume 4, Issue 29
party sponsored by UCaLL.
This program should be quite
successful in supporting the
university’s persistence and
retention initiatives. The
responsibility of a mentor is to
help and guide the educational or
career development of another
individual, usually younger and
less experienced. By partnering
faculty, administrators, and staff
with freshmen, WSSU will be
ensuring that its freshmen will
have someone that they can
contact when they have questions,
are facing a crisis, or when they
just need someone to talk to. The
life of a typical freshman can be
complicated and, at times, strange
and unfamiliar. Mentors can help
take the strangeness and
unfamiliarity out of the experience.
In addition to the new
mentoring program, UCaLL assists
students with effective academic
advising services including
tutoring, supplemental instruction,
the operation of learning centers
and skills enhancement
workshops. They also offer a
variety of professional
development opportunities such as
workshops, seminars and other
personalized and group
experiences and activities that
create competence and confidence.
A Message from Dean Jessica Bailey
As the second summer school session
and other on-campus activities are
beginning to wind down,
the SBE has entered a typical
transition phase where activities
are ending, while others are just
beginning. This week, the school
Dr. Bailey
was the location of the 2013
Summer Research Fellowship presentations,
an occasion when selected undergraduate
students had the opportunity to present the
research findings resulting from their
summer research fellowships. Ten
undergraduate scholars presented their
research findings to an audience that asked
provocative questions and gave insightful
recommendations for follow-up.
At the same time, our sights have
turned to the fall 2013 semester. In one
more week, department chairs will be
returning to campus, last-minute physical
plant and facilities modifications will be
underway, and incoming freshmen,
readmits, and transfer students will begin
appearing on campus. Faculty members will
be returning to campus, after a summer of
myriad pursuits, while Freshmen
Orientation, known as RAMDITIONS, will be
a campus-wide focus. August also brings a
host of meetings, retreats, and other
preparations that always mark this
transition period.
I confess this is my favorite time of year.
Preparing for the beginning of each new
academic cycle is always exciting.
Jessica Bailey
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FOCUS News
Provocation Speech by Dean Bailey at Camp Snowball 2013
The School of Business and
Economics was the hot topic at Camp
Snowball 2013 being held on the
campus of Wake Forest University
from July 22 to July 26. Camp
Snowball is a week-long summer
experience designed to assist youth to
think in systems
and to act for a
healthy future.
The camp brings
together students,
parents, educators,
and business and
community leaders to build everyone’s
capacity for learning and leading in the
21st century.
Dean Jessica Bailey presented an
overview of the School of Business and
Economics in an address known as a
provocation—a short talk that is
designed to push thinking into new
territory by offering challenging
questions and exciting insights. She
highlighted the hallmarks of the school
(leadership, professionalism, practical
experiences) and showed how they
relate to the majors being taught in the
departments and the school’s graduate
programs. In addition, she explained
the many outreach activities engaged
in by the school, especially those
conducted by the
centers (Center for
Entrepreneurship,
Center of
Excellence in
Financial Services,
Center for
Economic Analysis, Professional
Development Center).
The provocation ended with the
discussion of some of the current
challenges being faced in the SBE; they
included restricted budgets, lack of
inquisitiveness, and apathy. The
solutions discussed were electrifying,
clear evidence that systems thinking is
the key to problem solving.
Important Dates
August 14 at 10:00 am
Faculty Meeting
August 19
Fall Classes Begin
September 10
Student Health Insurance Waiver Deadline
Bridgett Cuthbertson (2010 MHA), Deputy Director,
OIC Family Medical Center, Rocky Mount, NC
Frank McKissick (1976), Owner, FM Enterprises (fullservice accounting firm), Winston-Salem, NC
Charity Kimbrough Staley (2013), Student Information
Systems Data Manager, Winston-Salem/
Forsyth Co. Schools, Winston-Salem, NC
Attention SBE Graduates:
We welcome the opportunity to provide
information about all of our students and alumni in
the Focus Newsletter’s “Where in the World”
section. This allows alumni, students and faculty to
be aware of the location and corporate affiliation of
friends and colleagues. Please send updates,
including your name, title, company name, year of
graduation and current city, and state/country to
greenebp@wssu.edu.
2010 MHA Graduate Shares His Journey and Core Elements with MHA Cohort
On Monday evening, July 22, the
School of Business and Economics
(SBE) was pleased to have Mr. Timothy
Taylor return as a
guest speaker for
the Health Law and
Biomedical Ethics
class taught by
Professor Stephanie
Joseph. The focus of
his speech centered
Timothy Taylor
around four core
elements that are
essential to the success of students
graduating from the Master of
Healthcare Administration (MHA)
program. These core elements are: a)
the importance of networking; b)
involvement with national
organizations; c) business plan and
case competition participation; and,
d) how to land and successfully
complete an administrative
fellowship.
Tim graduated from the MHA
program in December of 2010. He was
the youngest of the inaugural MHA
cohort, and has since been a fervent
supporter of the MHA program and the
School of Business and Economics. In
addition to his participation as an
active member of the MHA Advisory
Board, he has returned to speak to the
undergraduate Healthcare
Management students on a number of
occasions.
and has been an active member of the
National Association of Health Service
Executives for more than three years.
He has also served as a member of the
National Urban League’s Young
Professionals in Winston Salem.
Tim worked briefly as a volunteer
in 2008 for Wake Forest Baptist Health
until he was hired permanently in
Outpatient Services in 2009 where he
remained until graduation. Following
graduation, he went on to become an
During his time as a student in the Administrative Fellow for Vidant
MHA program, he was a two-time
Medical Center of the Vidant Health
prize winner in the SBE Business Plan System in Greenville, North Carolina,
Competition where he won a first
a position that he held until the
runner up award in 2010 and was one summer of 2012. His plan to remain in
of the first prize winners in 2011. He
academic medicine led him to his next
has also competed in many other
career transition in Nashville
competitions on local and national
Tennessee to complete another
levels. Tim was the founder of the
Administrative Fellowship with the
annual health care panel discussion at President and Chief Executive Officer
the School of Business and Economics of Meharry Medical College.