From: Rice Business Onboarding
Date: July 5, 2022
Subject: Summer Scoop | MBA for Professionals | July 5, 2022



 July 5, 2022

What should I be doing now?

Review the Onboarding Checklist to confirm that you are on track in submitting administrative items that will help us prepare for your first day. You can access the Onboarding Checklist in your applicant portal at apply.business.rice.edu/account/login and click the ONBOARDING tab at the top.

It is essential that if you have past-due items, you get caught up as soon as possible, especially if you have registration holds.

Review your Kickoff Schedule. Please make sure to review carefully as Evening and Weekend students have different schedule pieces. 
  • Evening students will attend Kickoff both July 15 and 16
  • Weekend students will join us for Kickoff only on July 16
 

Class Registration

Because the first semester of your MBA program is lock-step, you will not need to register for any courses yourself. Instead, the Registration and Student Records team (often known as "the Rice Business Registrar") will take care of this for you, ensuring that you are registered for the right classes.

We will be starting this process this week, but for us to do so, you need to have cleared all of your registration holds in ESTHER. If you haven’t already done so, you can find the directions on how to do this by clicking here. Not sure if you still have holds? The instructions show you how to check that as well!

Once you have been registered for your fall courses, you will receive an email from us detailing your fall schedule with instructions on how to double check that the registration is correct. Registration will give you access to your fall Canvas sites.  These sites are available only after the professor has published the course site, which is typically about two weeks prior to the start of the class.

Have questions? You can reach the Rice Business Registrar team by emailing jgsbregistrar@rice.edu.
 

Meet the APSE Team

(Office of Academic Programs and Student Experience)

Yassmine Elbaroudy

Registration and Student Records Specialist
Learn more about Yassmine
 

Calling entrepreneurs and future founders:

An opportunity for you
Are you an incoming graduate student interested in entrepreneurship? Considering a path as a founder? The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie), Rice's entrepreneurship center for the campus, is hosting the Future Founders Summit on August 6 and 7 and you could be part of it! With workshops, alumni panels and a hackathon, you’re sure to leave the weekend feeling more energized than ever and ready to make a career out of tackling big problems. Applications are due July 21.

You can learn more and apply here or reach out to Lilie's Executive Director Kyle Judah with any questions. 
 

Reminder: Upcoming Alumni Panels / Book your intake appointment in before Launch

Please book an intake appointment with an advisor in OWL Careers. This is only required if you plan on doing an internship during your PMBA program. 
 
Upcoming alumni panels:
  • July 6, 2022 - Real Estate
  • July 8, 2022 - Investment Banking
RSVP and get links in the Applicant Portal via Slate.
 
 

Reminder: Connect with the Class of 2024 on Microsoft Teams

To allow the Class of 2024 to begin connecting with each other, and develop a community of students joining Rice Business in fall 2022, we’ve developed a Microsoft Teams channel just for the Class of 2024.

You can access Microsoft Teams at https://teams.microsoft.com and login with your Rice credentials. For help getting started in Microsoft Teams, please review this KnowledgeBase article.

You can access the Class of 2024 site by using JOIN CODE e4jmat0 or by following this link.