{"id":1925,"date":"2017-04-24T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2018-02-23T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:39:39","slug":"welcome-to-furthermore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/welcome-to-furthermore\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to furtherMORE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"furtherMore<\/a>\"Dean<\/a>What\u2019s Your More? It takes a dream and a furtherMORE blog to answer this question!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I read Mark Twain\u2019s classic novels, Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, when I was a teenager in Iran. Ever since, I held the images of life on the Mississippi, its community goodness, and its exciting adventures as depicted in the novels, as an integral part of my lifelong dreaming. Little could I foresee that my dreaming would someday become a reality when in April of 2014 I was fortunate to assume the Deanship of Winona State University\u2019s AACSB accredited College of Business.<\/p>\n

During the past four years, I have engaged in an ongoing dialogue with our students, faculty, alumni, business partners and community members in Winona, Rochester and beyond for taking the educational experience of our graduates to a more distinct level of excellence.\u00a0 Together, with the faculty, students and staff, we, at the WSU College of Business, have come to the agreement that \u201cinnovative engaged teaching and learning\u201d in partnership with businesses and communities in Winona, Minnesota and beyond will create a more enriched brand of educational experience for our business graduates.<\/p>\n

Thus, for nearly three years now we have adopted the tagline of\u00a0Create Your More<\/em>, which captures the strong commitment of our faculty and students to go beyond the ordinary by engaging in relevant, meaningful, and ongoing experiential interaction with our business partners.\u00a0 Since then,\u00a0What\u2019s Your More <\/em>has become my favorite question to ask.<\/p>\n

Students have answered it through increasing club membership, greater participation in events, and initiating projects and professional development academies, such as Dean\u2019s Advisory Board, Walkabout Winona, Beta Gamma Sigma, and the John Latsch Leadership Academy.\u00a0 Faculty have answered it by co-teaching class sessions and organizing expansive company days in close collaboration with our business partners.<\/p>\n

Recent alumni have answered it by stating a higher satisfaction with their engaged experience and by reporting a larger number of job offers from employers both locally and nationally.\u00a0 Long-term alumni have answered it by visiting our campus more often and initiating major projects as exemplified by the landmark Women\u2019s symposium, or their generous donations as exemplified by Strauss Center for Sales Excellence.<\/p>\n

Business partners have answered it by becoming our sponsors and by generously giving of their time, talents, and resources to engage with and support our students and faculty. Most recently, Winona National Bank has named Financial Markets Lab in our Engagement Center.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019m very excited about the launching of our furtherMORE blog & newsletter. It gives us a regular platform for answers to my favorite question as we begin to share our\u00a0Create Your More<\/em>\u00a0experiences, one story at a time, with the world.\u00a0So, let\u2019s start our furtherMore stories by asking,\u00a0What\u2019s Your More?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hamid Akbari, PhD<\/em>\r\nDean and Professor of Management<\/em>\r\nCollege of Business<\/em>\r\nHAkbari@winona.edu\r\n<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I read Mark Twain\u2019s classic novels of Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was a teenager in Iran.  Ever since, I held the images of life on Mississippi, its community goodness, and its exciting adventures, as depicted in the novels, as an integral part of my lifelong dreaming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"
What\u2019s Your More? It takes a dream and a furtherMORE blog to answer this question!<\/strong><\/p>
I read Mark Twain\u2019s classic novels of Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was a teenager in Iran.\u00a0 Ever since, I held the images of life on Mississippi, its community goodness, and its exciting adventures, as depicted in the novels, as an integral part of my lifelong dreaming.\u00a0 Little could I foresee that my dreaming would someday become a reality as, three years ago in April 2014, I assumed the Deanship of Winona State University\u2019s College of Business in Winona, situated between the overlooking lush bluffs and Mississippi River in the southeast corner of the great state of Minnesota.<\/p>
During the past three years, I have engaged in an ongoing dialogue with our students, faculty, alumni, business partners and community members in Winona, Rochester and beyond for taking the educational experience of our graduates to a more distinct level of excellence.\u00a0 Together, with the faculty, students and staff, we, at the WSU College of Business, have come to agreement that \u201cinnovative engaged teaching and learning\u201d in partnership with businesses and communities in Winona, Minnesota and beyond will create a more enriched brand of educational experience for our business graduates.<\/p>
Thus, for a year now we have adopted the tagline of Create Your More<\/em>, which captures the strong commitment of our faculty and students to go beyond the ordinary by engaging in relevant, meaningful, and ongoing experiential interaction with our business partners.\u00a0 Since then, What\u2019s Your More?<\/em>, has become my favorite question to ask.\u00a0 Students have answered it through increasing club membership, greater participation in events, and initiating professional development programs and academies, such as Business Week, Beta Gamma Sigma, and the John Latsch Leadership Academy.\u00a0 Faculty have answered it by co-teaching class sessions and organizing expansive company days in close collaboration with our business partners.\u00a0 Alumni have answered it by stating a higher satisfaction with their engaged experience and by reporting a larger number of job offers from employers both locally and nationally.\u00a0 Business partners have answered it by becoming our sponsors and by generously giving of their time, talents, and resources to engage with our students and faculty.<\/p>
That\u2019s why I\u2019m very excited about the launching of our furtherMORE Blog. It gives us a regular platform for answers to my favorite question as we begin to share our Create Your More<\/em> experiences, one story at a time, with the world.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s start our blog stories by asking, What\u2019s Your More?<\/em><\/p>
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Hamid Akbari, PhD<\/em>\r\nDean and Professor of Management<\/em>\r\nCollege of Business<\/em><\/pre>","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[38,35,36,37],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome","tag-college-of-business","tag-create-your-more","tag-furthermore","tag-winona-state-university"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/SomsenHall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtva2-v3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}