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Lending a Hand
In March, a team of four Utica College MBA students was selected to compete in the live round of the Graduate Student Organization Case Competition at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The team was one of only six to qualify for the final round with the submission of a paper outlining a solution to a business case study. All four students are business leaders outside the classroom, as well: (pictured, from left) Paige Reina is a senior credit analyst at NBT Bank; Izabela Carr is a project leader for pharmaceutical company ICON plc; Merima Veiz is a project analyst and senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton; and Dana Crisino is director of the Herkimer-Oneida Counties Transportation Study. (Photo 1)
Utica College ranks high for value and quality according to two lists published recently by College Factual and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In its 2019 report on the “Best Schools for the Money,” College Factual placed Utica College among the top 10 percent nationally for value, determined by average total annual cost, the average time students take to graduate, and overall quality. The Chronicle of Higher Education recognized Utica College among the “top 15 colleges with the highest student-mobility rates.” The study measured the percentage of all students in a birth cohort at a particular college whose parents were in the bottom 20 percent for household income, and who reached the top 20 percent for individual earnings.
Rest and relaxation could wait for these students, who spent a portion of their spring break in March helping those in need. As part of “Alternative Break Days,” a group of UC students and staff worked with the Red Cross to promote fire safety and provide free smoke alarms to Utica residents. Others worked with the Refugee Center’s Resettlement Team to organize supplies and furniture for new refugee families. (Photo 2) Presidential Purpose Megan Sliski ’20 joined the student branch of the New York Physical Therapy Association (NYPTA) two years ago with the modest goal of meeting and networking with physical therapists from across the state. This year, the organization elected
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Megan its new president. Sliski, a student in UC’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program, now represents fellow PT students from hundreds of member colleges and universities in New York State. “It’s so exciting to work with students to help better the profession of physical therapy and to advocate for our patients and their futures,” says Sliski, who is currently completing her fieldwork in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan—an experience in line with Sliski’s ultimate career goal of working with newborns in a hospital setting. “Helping sick and premature infants meet milestones is incredibly rewarding,” she says. (Photo 3)
