{"id":10357,"date":"2010-12-06T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:35:23","slug":"chapman-school-of-business-places-first-in-university-wide-and-in-internal-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/12\/chapman-school-of-business-places-first-in-university-wide-and-in-internal-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapman Graduate School wins university-wide and college Homecoming competitions."},"content":{"rendered":"
Beating out the competition comes naturally to the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU), one of the country\u2019s top business schools. But competition during Homecoming Week 2010 was a different challenge: showcase your Panther Pride!<\/p>\n
The graduate school certainly demonstrated winning ways. It achieved the top spot in the second annual FIU Homecoming Spirit Decoration Competition, a university-wide challenge, by constructing and displaying an innovative float that depicted each graduate program.<\/p>\n
Business school holds their second annual internal competition.<\/em><\/p>\n The Chapman School also was one of the winners in the College of Business Administration\u2019s own decorating contest.<\/p>\n For this internal competition, prizes were awarded for best homecoming decoration to:<\/p>\n \u201cAt the Chapman School, their entire floor was decorated and it was clear nobody missed out,\u201d said Yanyn San Luis <\/strong>(BA \u201910), coordinator, student and alumni\u00a0 relations. She and Melissa Izquierdo<\/strong> (BBA \u201910), coordinator, corporate and community relations, handled the details of homecoming events for the business school.<\/p>\n \u201cBlue and gold was everywhere in the business school, and so was FIU Spirit!\u201d said Izquierdo. <\/strong>\u201cMany people used mascot Roary but adapted him to the business school, such as putting him in a suit.\u201d<\/p>\n Competition judge Raul Gonzalez<\/strong> (MSHRM \u201908, BBA \u201998), manager, human resources, said the cleverness of the contestants made it tough to select winners.<\/p>\n \u201cI was looking for spirit, creativity and effort,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat surprised me was the attention to detail in each of the winning areas.\u201d<\/p>\n Winners were announced and prizes of gift baskets were awarded at the business school\u2019s pep rally on November 4th.<\/p>\n The business school staff and students also decorated a float for the homecoming parade held November 6th.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were very pleased with the spirit of the college during homecoming season,\u201d said Annabelle Rojas<\/strong> (MBA \u201998, BBA \u201987), assistant dean, advancement, alumni, and corporate relations. \u201cParticipating in the homecoming week helps to strengthen the strong team spirit that we already have.\u201d<\/p>\n Rojas said the tradition will continue for Homecoming 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beating out the competition comes naturally to the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU), one of the country\u2019s top business schools. But competition during Homecoming Week 2010 was a different challenge: showcase your Panther Pride! The graduate school certainly demonstrated winning ways. It achieved the top spot in the second annual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[388],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23766,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/23766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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