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Business School Introduces Accelerated MBA and Outlines BSC Program Offerings
A&S Faculty Members Tenured Admidst Pandemic
The School of Business recently introduced its Accelerated MBA program, allowing students to receive their completed degree in just 18 months. Each session is eight weeks long, earns six credits, and is composed of nine Saturday sessions that take place both inperson and online. MBA students can choose from a variety of concentrations, including Accounting, Finance, Healthcare Administration, International Business, Management, and Marketing. The goal of the accelerated program is to allow students the flexibility to work fulltime while pursuing their degree and to be able to achieve degree completion in a shorter the amount of time. Within the School of Business, The Business Success Center (BSC) has also been working hard to provide students with tools to excel in their academic and professional lives. The BSC prepares students for the workforce by providing them with opportunities for mock interviews, resume and cover letter review, job search help, and scheduled events. Other examples of their offerings are the Etiquette Dinner, Virtual Job Fairs, and the Women’s Mentoring and Leadership Program. The Business Success Center has recently received a $40,000 grant from Wells Frago to continue to provide these programs and resources. Graduate students are welcome and encouraged to participate in all BSC events and programs.
The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to be welcoming six new tenure-track faculty who will teach in our graduate programs: Dr. Sahar Al Seesi, a new faculty member in the Computer Science Department, specializes in Bioinformatics, which is an interdisciplinary field in which computer science intersects with biology, mathematics, and statistics. Dr. Dana Casetti is joining the Physics Department; her research is in astronomy, and she applies machine learning techniques to astronomical data. Joining the Department of the Environment, Geography, and Marine Sciences, Dr. Miriah Kelly does research in the areas of climate change, coastal transformation, and environmental communication and is a member of SCSU’s Project Blue. The Sociology Department has two new hires: Dr. Adam Pittman and Dr. Amanda Bertana. Dr. Bertana’s primary area of research is on the political economy of global environmental change, specifically focusing on how development and inequality contribute to environmental degradation. Dr. Pittman’s research specialties are Criminology, Urban Sociology, and Qualitative Methods. Dr. Anastasia Sorokina is joining the TESOL program and is a fluent Russian-English bilingual with training in ESL, e-learning, and linguistics, and has extensive experience in assessment development, curriculum design, and academic writing.
Please email Patricia Conte at contep2@southernct.edu for more information.
A Zine Inside of a Newsletter College of Education Releases Annual Magazine
The College of Education has released its first-ever annual magazine highlighting the thoughts, works, and development of both faculty and students. Entitled Learning Through Inquiry, Experience, and Reflection: 2019-2020 in Review, the magazine reflects the continuing and untiring efforts of the College to become a recognized leader in pedagogical research and scholarship. Featured, is a piece on the opening of the new Barack Obama H. Magnet University School—the city’s first elementary school located on a university campus and nationwide model for teacher preparation and educational innovation—as well as achievements by former and current education students pioneering research by faculty, and news on our newly ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Science. The magazine can be read here: https://issuu.com/scsu/docs/coe_annual_magazine-150dpi 3
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