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| FROM Fuqua Current Student Blogs: Taking the Mentorship Program to the Entire Daytime MBA Community |
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Seeing the success of the small scale mentorship programs run by some of Fuqua’s student clubs, Jennifer Kim and I saw an opportunity to team up with the Development and Alumni Relations department and take them school-wide. We thought alumni mentors would offer students a valuable opportunity to gain both professional and personal development advice and to help them take full advantage of the Fuqua MBA in a thoughtful way. Alumni Relations recruited the mentors, while Jennifer and I engaged with interested clubs to discuss how to best implement the initiative. Students ranked their mentorship preferences by industry, function, location, gender, ethnicity, and club affiliation. And thanks to the enormous outpouring of alumni volunteers, last year, all of the roughly 200 students who wanted a mentor were matched—most to their top preferences! Larry Gladstone, MBA ’94, has fully enjoyed his experience as a Health Sector Management mentor and sees it as a mutually beneficial experience. His involvement stems from mentorship relationships that have helped him achieve his career successes. Larry prompts his mentee to reach his or her own conclusions and starts by asking very basic questions like: What have you enjoyed about different professional roles that you’ve taken on? Do you have any specific goals that you are already focused on? Larry wants his mentees to be deliberate in how they take advantage of the mentorship program and leave each conversation with at least one nugget of information. Mike Dombeck, MBA ’03, wants to help students avoid some of the pitfalls he encountered while building his career. In his mentor relationships he has helped prepare students for their summer internships and full-time job hunts plus helped them navigate the competing demands of a Fuqua MBA. Mike views school, career, and personal life as intrinsically linked, and loves the fact that some of his relationships have endured past graduation. One of Mike’s mentees was Lisa Moore, MBA ’11. Mike lives in the Triangle, so he and Lisa met monthly to discuss her career options and discuss planning her time at Fuqua. She appreciated that he never squashed her dreams, but allowed her to explore different paths. Mike’s experience resonated with her and as she’s made successive career transitions, she’s continued to lean on him for advice and guidance. This year, the mentorship program is available to all Daytime MBAs. Jennifer and I always wanted to help Fuqua build a program that made a difference, gave students a new perspective and helped alumni engage with the school. We are hopeful this program will continue after we graduate and that maybe in a few years, we’ll become alumni mentors ourselves. The post Taking the Mentorship Program to the Entire Daytime MBA Community appeared first on Duke MBA Student Blog. |
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| FROM Fuqua Current Student Blogs: Benefits of the Unique Fuqua Class Schedule |
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A question I often get is, why does Fuqua have Wednesdays off from class? Why not Friday like many other B-schools? Once you understand how valuable the midweek break is to your schedule it makes perfect sense. The value to having Wednesday as a ‘free day’ is that it helps pace the academics during the week as you attempt to balance all the extracurricular activities that are thrust upon you as a component of the MBA experience. I’ll try my best to provide that perspective based on my experience so far as a first-year student. As a prospective MBA student, you know the joy that surrounds any 3-day holiday weekend. Presently, you may think of all that can be accomplished with an extra day during the weekend. Maybe you’ll do a little traveling, enjoy some family time, try relaxing, or socializing. You contemplate all relative merits of a trip to the beach or hiking at a scenic destination nearby. It’s OK to appreciate those 3-day weekends now, because after you arrive they will strike fear into your hearts as MBAs. I’ll explain how they disrupt your Fuqua class schedule in just a second. The Weekly Schedule The pace of life at Fuqua is based around a 2-day block of classes, twice a week (Monday/Tuesday and Thursday/Friday). So our weekly academic schedule consists of 2, 2-day blocks, or ‘mini-weeks’ with Wednesday as a catch up day in between. Every 2-day block of classes generally necessitates an entire free day to help students finish pre-work, revisit difficult concepts from a previous day, recruiting activity, or to fulfill those productive extra-curricular endeavors. You’ll quickly find yourself protecting your Wednesdays because they give you that much needed break in between the 2 academic mini-weeks, allowing you to meet the demands of your rigorous academic and professional schedule.  …or engage in extracurricular activities on campus like attending this Graduate & Professional Student Council lunch with Duke University President Richard Brodhead When the Schedule is Disrupted Now back to the dread and fear brought about by a 3-day weekend. When this occurs, as it did the week of Labor Day during the first week of Fall Term 1, classes are compressed into the remaining four weekdays. Having class Tuesday through Friday leaves you without a significant amount of free time to catch up before you are again thrust into the classroom for another round in front of the proverbial fire-hose of knowledge. As soon as you experience how upsetting this is to the smooth flow of the weekly academic schedule, you suddenly go through your calendar praying that no more Wednesdays will be sacrificed in a given term. After all is said and done, I’m eternally grateful to the amazing people who realized that dividing up the week by giving us Wednesdays off really makes the learning process better. Other MBA programs seemed to relish having their Fridays off. But knowing what I do now about the competing pressures of an MBA program (academic, social, and professional), my Wednesdays and the unique schedule at Fuqua have become major components of a healthy and balanced MBA candidate lifestyle. The post Benefits of the Unique Fuqua Class Schedule appeared first on Duke MBA Student Blog. |
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