From: Office of Academic Programs and Student Experience
Date: June 25, 2018
Subject: Summer Scoop - MBA for Professionals Evening June 25


MBA for Professionals Program

June 25, 2018

Welcome to CampusGroups

Welcome to CampusGroups, the student life platform that you will use during your tenure as a Jones Graduate School of Business Student. CampusGroups is a web-based student resources and activities management platform. It is where the Student Program Office, the JGSB Registrar Department, the Career Development Office, and Student Clubs will communicate with you and post resources for your use. It includes a master calendar of school-wide, program specific, and club specific programming and events, event registration, payment links for events and merchandise, as well as electronic tickets for events that you are registered for. While you might not have need to use CampusGroups daily, you will definitely want to familiarize yourself with the system and you should be logging on to CampusGroups weekly.

Please see below for a walk through of the various resources on CampusGroups that you will use more frequently. CampusGroups also has an app that you can download and have CampusGroups on the go. You can find the CampusGroups app in the Apple Store and Google Play by searching for "Rice Business". There will be a walkthrough of the app in next week's edition of The Summer Scoop.

CampusGroups Walkthrough

Communications Course

Communications is an important part of your curriculum here at the Jones School. You will be required to attend 6 Communications sessions this fall that will take place on alternating THURSDAYS from 7:00pm-8:30pm. Specific dates will be based on your section, which will be announced by Kickoff (July 13th).

Section 1: August 30, September 13, September 27, October 11, October 25, November 8

Section 2: September 6, September 20, October 4, October 18, November 1, November 15

Did you Know....

that the Jones Graduate School of Business has its own dedicated financial aid team?

Salomon Medina and Illaria Puente know everything there is to know about financing your MBA and are eager to make sure that you have all of the resources and tools to finance your education. They have put together a comprehensive list of resources and tools on their Canvas site and you can schedule an in-person or phone meeting to discuss your options. They can also be reached by email, but, as this is a busy time of year, you can expect longer than normal turnaround times.

Meet the SPO

Abbey Hartgrove, Associate Director, Global Programs

My name is Abbey Hartgrove and this is my 4th year working here at Rice Business. I am from a small city in west Texas called San Angelo (born and raised). I moved to College Station, Texas to attend college at the great Texas A&M University, where I got my bachelors in Sociology! Whoop! From there I lived in Guatemala for 6 months before I moved to Houston for grad school. I got my masters at the University of Houston in MORE...

What should I be doing now?

This week you should be working through the Holds Removal Process. The Registrar's Office will be registering you for all of your first semester classes soon, but will not be able to if you have not removed all of your holds.This item was due on June 18th, it is imperative that you complete it THIS WEEK! If you do not, we will not be able to register you for your classes and you will not be able to access your course materials.

You should still be working your way through your Onboarding Checklist and the Career Development Office assignments. Make sure that you are keeping up with the assignments and are turning them in by the deadline.

We will continue to reach out to you by email and by phone to collect past due assignments. The deadlines of these assignments are very important because the assignments give us the information that we need to be fully prepared for you to start the program in a few weeks. Please make sure that you are keeping up with deadlines and turning things in on time. 

If you are on top of all of your assignments and you are still looking for something to do, here is a list of recommended reading:

Naked Economics
mindset
Naked Statistics
Wall Street Journal
Economist
The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand

Rice Facts

The University's Dark History

On May 18, 1891, Massachusetts-born businessman William Marsh Rice chartered the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science, and Art as a gift to the city of Houston, where he made his fortune. The terms of the charter required that work on the new institute would begin only after Rice's death. MORE...