The top three officers in nine business organizations met at Elam\u2019s home to share ideas with her. Organizations represented were ALPFA, Alpha Kappa Psi, American Marketing Association (AMA), Beta Alpha Psi, Finance and Management Association, Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL), International Business Honor Society (IBHS), Phoenician Investment Fund and Real Estate Student Association (RESA).<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a fantastic event with better-than-expected returns,\u201d said Mohales Deis<\/strong> of Alpha Kappa Psi, the discussion facilitator. \u201cThe students were truly engaged and showed their passion through ingenious and attentive discussion. We saw that the college\u2019s leadership cares and is open to hearing our perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n Yanyn<\/strong> San Luis<\/strong> (BA \u201910), student and alumni relations coordinator, organized the event.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have had social opportunities in the past, but this roundtable was for students to give important feedback and to offer new ideas,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted our students to know firsthand that the college values their input and I was eager to get their insights,\u201d Elam said. \u201cI was impressed by the range of their ideas and the extent of their commitment to our shared goals, and thought it was a very fruitful conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n Specific ideas allow dean to receive important input. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cStudents are diligent problem solvers with creative solutions,\u201d Deis said. \u201cThe college needs to tap into that reservoir and leverage it.\u201d<\/p>\n Deis suggested having a \u201cBusiness Student of the Year\u201d award. Some students asked for more faculty involvement; others proposed to Elam that the curriculum be more case-based.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m working on action items to see which of the students\u2019 ideas can come to life,\u201d San Luis said. \u201cThis fall\u2019s faculty-student networking event is just one example.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some events promise beneficial outcomes; others actually deliver. A roundtable discussion of 27 student leaders recently hosted by Joyce J. Elam, executive dean in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), resulted in an enriching event and new directions, including a faculty-student networking event planned for the fall. The top three officers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":27061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[48,68,238,868,966,1159,1405,2875,2220,2507,2693],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481"}],"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=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28652,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions\/28652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_Deans-round-table.jpg\" "\\"tn_Dean's")
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