Author: Kathy

The Conflict Management course students heard today how LifeWorks staff helps their clients and families be successful in wage-paying jobs, giving people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to work. It was amazing. I know people who work in human services have complex and demanding jobs— the number of people and the variety of stakeholders with…

A former student sent me an email this afternoon with the link to Jenna Christensen’s ’13 Huffington Post blog entry. Jenna wants all her Millennial peers to embrace social networking tools like Twitter and Instagram as ways to share industry-relevant information and more substantial conversation-starters than what someone had for dinner that night. It’s a…

Kudos to Caroline Nelson who scored a real job after her United Health Group internship this past summer. She is my latest exhibit A on the power of tapping into the Gustie family. Thanks to Scott Gilyard ’83 and Keith Roberts of Optum (not a technical Gustie but we have adopted him) for reaching out…

The OB students did such a GREAT job with their executive summaries! The community partners were in the audience and it was a great networking and sharing session to hear service work and projects. I was really proud of what they accomplished this spring. Thanks to Feeding our Communities Partners and the backpack food program,…

In their Organizational Behavior class students are creating value for their community partners. They helped Feeding Our Community Partners’ Backpack food program create a values statement, which will assist in their ability to apply for grant funding. At the Habitat for Humanity groundbreaking on Monday May 6 (thankfully sunny and warm!) Ni helped in the…

Warren and Kari created a really special evening at the networking event.  

Russ Michaletz ’74 talks with Brittany Hancock ’14 about what has to be exciting Accounting stuff…! John Hallberg ’79 also came to support students’ aspirations and offer his experiences as CEO of Children’s Cancer Research Fund.  

The Minneapolis Club room was full of energy- thanks to all the alumni who came to support Gustie students!   Kent is a member of Econ/Management’s national advisory board. Great to see him that evening. Paul Batz is always available to support our students and is instrumental in the Mentoring Program’s success! Kari Clark will…

An energizing gift from those Wellbeing National Advisory Board folks– a design thinking workshop at the Optum Group, part of United Health! Design thinking is the next great innovation methodology inspired by David Kelley and IDEO.. and some Economics and Management students got to work through a ‘boot camp’ with a couple dozen UHG executives.…

I am starting to get the feeling folks want us to change here in higher education.  Moody’s (yep, the credit rating agency) downgraded higher education’s outlook in a report from January 16. Here is a summary of the story:  http://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-2013-outlook-for-entire-US-Higher-Education-sector-changed–PR_263866. They essentially said our business models won’t work going forward, and we can’t keep raising…