{"id":12319,"date":"2011-06-07T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:34:28","slug":"mentoring-program-for-school-of-accounting-marks-start-of-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/06\/mentoring-program-for-school-of-accounting-marks-start-of-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring program for School of Accounting marks start of second year."},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning how to interact with real professionals in the workplace is just one advantage that student Rolando Chavez has discovered from having a mentor.<\/p>\n

Chavez, a senior accounting major in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), has Gary Opper (MST \u201983), CPA, as a mentor. Opper is managing member of Levie-Opper LLC and president of the Accounting Alumni Council (AAC), formerly known as the School of Accounting Alumni Affinity Council (SOAAAC).<\/p>\n

\u201cCourses teach the process of accounting and having a mentor helps you understand the work environment,\u201d said Chavez, who hopes to pursue law school and then obtain a position with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have someone guide you on the right professional path.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gary Opper and Rolando Chavez often meet in Opper\u2019s office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thirty mentor-mentee relationships were celebrated at a breakfast on April 20, 2011, marking the start of the second year of the School of Accounting Mentorship Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ruth Ann McEwen, the school\u2019s director, welcomed the group; accounting student Jeffrey Kellogg spoke about his experience in the inaugural program; and Diego Suarez (MACC \u201906, BACC \u201905) AAC vice president, introduced this year\u2019s program, which has a more proactive approach including quarterly follow-ups with participants.<\/p>\n

Mentoring provides powerful way to give back, influence futures. <\/em><\/p>\n

Opper remembers why he helped start the school\u2019s mentoring program and become a mentor himself.<\/p>\n

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Gary Opper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAs a young man, I called the famous tax attorney Norman Lipoff, out of the blue, and he took me under his wing, never asking for anything in return,\u201d Opper said. \u201cI decided that when I was old enough I would do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He often communicates with Chavez and a second mentee, Anna Finale, and takes them out for meals. They visit Opper\u2019s office and attend meetings and lectures that he conducts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a mentor you can change a life for the better or have your life changed,\u201d said Opper, who has written articles on mentoring. \u201cWe continue an ancient tradition of elders passing their knowledge on to a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chavez appreciates that he and Opper \u201cdeveloped a relationship that goes further than just accounting. He mentored me on how to be a better person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning how to interact with real professionals in the workplace is just one advantage that student Rolando Chavez has discovered from having a mentor. Chavez, a senior accounting major in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), has Gary Opper (MST \u201983), CPA, as a mentor. Opper is managing member of Levie-Opper […]<\/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":[13],"tags":[2339,2388,2448],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319"}],"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=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23728,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/23728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}