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College of Business students get help

Local News Story. Art by Chris Brockman.
Local News Story. Art by Chris Brockman.

The College of Business will be introducing a new tool to all incoming freshmen and pre-business majors. Go Team, a group of seventeen student mentors, will be ready to advise and direct incoming students. These seventeen mentors have been selected because of their success and involvement in the College of Business.

The primary years at a university are vital for advising and engaging the students, according to Dr. Leigh Browning, professor of Business Communication and Marketing. The College of Business saw this as an opportunity to reach out to their pre-business students and meet them at the start of their university education.

One of the faculty members in charge of Go Team is Browning. The College of Business wanted Browning, who has been a professor at West Texas A&M for 22 years, to create a program that would engage the students directly.

“I think it will dramatically change their experience,” Browning said. “And they will see from the very beginning that there are places they can go and people that are there to help them navigate their first few years.”

Browning said she is excited about how this program is going to benefit the future of many business students. The students reaching students model has been very beneficial, according to Browning. The mentors, or ambassadors for the College of Business as Browning called them, are just as excited about this.

“Heck yeah, we are looking forward to it,” Elizabeth Castillo, a junior Accounting major, said.

Castillo said she wishes she had something like this student mentoring students program when she was a freshman. She said if there was a program like this, she may have ended up in a different part of the College of Business. This mentorship covers it all, making sure that all incoming students know what to expect in each department of the college.
“They are our future,” Castillo said. “This is why we are preparing them to be good leaders in the future.”

Denise Day, an incoming freshman Business Management major, is equally thrilled about this program. Day plans on taking her degree and opening a business of her own someday. Coming in with 30 hours has caused a press for time, and graduating high school from a class of sixteen has made her first year at WT a significant change.

“It’s nice being new on campus and having somebody help us through our freshman year as business majors,” Day said. “An opportunity like this will be helpful as a freshman.”

Castillo said that not a lot of people know what is a part of the College of Business. There are many programs that make up the college, including Enactus, Accounting and Finance Club and the Omicron Epsilon Delta honor society.

“[Go Team is] bringing the College of Business to our most important client, which is the students,” said Browning.

 

 

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