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Students Give Winston-Salem, N.C., University's Business Program High Marks

Posted on: Thursday, 15 June 2006, 18:00 CDT

By Brian Louis, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.

Jun. 13--Mia Breaux, a rising senior at the N.C. School of the Arts, is beginning to make up for the lack of business classes at the arts school.

Breaux, a modern-dance major, wants to open her own dance studio someday, and Wake Forest University's three-week "It's All About Business" program was a good place to get her feet wet in various aspects of business.

"I thought this would be a great start," Breaux, of Houston, said yesterday.

Breaux is one of 30 primarily minority students from 18 colleges who have gathered at Wake Forest for the program.

The program is offered by the Babcock Graduate School of Management and the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.

The students have taken a variety of classes, including accounting, finance, quantitative analysis, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship.

"It's been very beneficial because I haven't had an opportunity to take courses like that," Breaux said.

The program is aimed at helping students prepare for the transition from college to the business world.

It also exposes them to business concepts that may generate an interest to pursue an MBA or complement previous courses to help them be more marketable to corporations.

The student body also includes students from several foreign countries, including Nepal, Nigeria, England and China.

Breaux wants to earn master's degrees in fine arts and business to help make her dream of opening her own studio become reality.

Stacey Hollis, a senior at N.C. A&T State University, who is majoring in industrial and systems engineering, wants to pursue an MBA down the road, but first he will obtain a master of science degree in operations research at N.C. A&T.

His goal is to eventually work at one of the big premier investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers or JP Morgan.

"It's been an enlightening experience," he said of the program, which runs through Thursday.

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Source: Winston-Salem Journal

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