{"id":23295,"date":"2014-09-02T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=23295"},"modified":"2014-12-16T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:15:13","slug":"pwc-to-help-welcome-cob-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2014\/09\/pwc-to-help-welcome-cob-students\/","title":{"rendered":"PwC to help welcome COB students on September 8."},"content":{"rendered":"
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New students learn about the College of Business and co-curricular activities at 2013 Welcome to the BizLife.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

College of Business students will be received next week with a start-of-semester tradition \u2013 \u201cWelcome to the BizLife,\u201d shining the spotlight on a celebration of education. The event is sponsored for the first time ever by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).<\/p>\n

Ileana Ca\u00f1izares, special events coordinator, describes this year\u2019s event as a \u201ccarnival-pep rally-barbecue all rolled into one.\u201d Designed to showcase the COB\u2019s broad range of co-curricular and academic offerings, the free event will be held on Monday, September 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the CBC courtyard. In addition to networking, students will have the opportunity to enjoy carnival-style food and play carnival-style games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a one-stop shop for students to gather and meet their peers, to obtain information about the COB, and meet the college\u2019s faculty and staff,\u201d she added. \u201cThey can see that there\u2019s always something available for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWelcome To The BizLife\u201d will introduce new and old students to some of the resources available to them, including advising, career management, international studies, and student organizations.<\/p>\n

This is the first time the event will have a sponsor of PwC\u2019s caliber. The global accounting firm will be present at the event, represented by COB alumnus Mario de Armas, PwC\u2019s FIU firm relationship partner, along with other COB partner and staff alumni.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal at the end of the day is to bring the school of business, accounting and professional business to the top of students\u2019 mind,\u201d said Whitney Wilson, PwC\u2019s Florida Campus Manager. \u00a0\u201cWe want to get them excited about what they can do with a degree in business and to give them information in a fun and relaxed setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already active with the COB for recruiting initiatives, PwC executives were drawn to \u201cWelcome To The BizLife\u201d after hosting a similar event at another school in 2013, Wilson noted. It was then that de Armas and the PwC team approached COB associate dean Ruth Ann McEwen, also director of the School of Accounting, with the idea.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were not aware if the school even had a welcome back event,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cWe approached the College of Business at end of last year to look back at the recruiting season. Our plan last year worked well, but we wanted to do something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

The COB welcome back event, originally called \u201cBizBash,\u201d took on a large-scale presence in 2012 and became \u201cWelcome to the BizLife.\u201d Since then, each semester has drawn more participants, including other FIU colleges and student organizations.<\/p>\n

Ca\u00f1izares is confident that with PwC\u2019s presence this year\u2019s event will draw even more students. \u201cWelcome to the BizLife\u201d will be promoted via on-campus flyers as well as an email campaign to students and faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College of Business students will be received next week with a start-of-semester tradition \u2013 \u201cWelcome to the BizLife,\u201d shining the spotlight on a celebration of education. The event is sponsored for the first time ever by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Ileana Ca\u00f1izares, special events coordinator, describes this year\u2019s event as a \u201ccarnival-pep rally-barbecue all rolled into one.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":24644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10,13],"tags":[1139,2151,2173,2339,3358,3359],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295"}],"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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24645,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions\/24645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}