Roskens Hall
Saturday, Sept. 8, 4:30-5:45p.m.
• Guided tours of Roskens
Hall! • Food and beverages! • Free
tickets to Mav football!
You are
invited to stop by and see the exciting changes made to Roskens Hall —
state-of-the-art business labs, new study areas, the latest information
technology, and more! Stick around for a Mav football game — we'll be handing
out free tickets to see UNO take on national power Northwest Missouri State.
We look
forward to seeing you! For more information or to RSVP, call (402) 554-2303 or
email mlandholt@mail.unomaha.edu
A team of
UNO MBA students took first place in the graduate fixed income competition at
the Redefining Investment Strategy Education (RISE) symposium hosted by the
University of Dayton. UNO MBA students earned first place in the fixed income
portfolio category based on the risk-adjusted return on a $1 million fixed
income portfolio the students managed for First National Bank.
The RISE
symposium is an international conference and competition for student-
managed
investment portfolios. More than 1,700 students participated in the 2007
international symposium, representing 218 colleges and universities from around
the globe.
Representing
UNO at the competition were MBA students Kate Clark, Patrick Wolfe, Michael
Asmus and Evan Vasiliades. Dr. David Volkman, professor and chair of the CBA
Finance, Banking and Law department, and Steve Frantz, chief investment officer
at First National Bank, advise the student team. For the 2007-2008 academic
year, the amount of money managed by our MBA students will increase to $2
million.
UNO MBA
students placed in the top 5 percent nationally in Major Field Tests
administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). UNO MBA results were in
the top 5 percent in all five of the subject areas tested including finance,
marketing, management, strategic integration and accounting.
UNO-CBA
seniors graduating with bachelor science of business administration (BSBA)
degrees placed in the top 15 percent nationally overall. They placed in the top
5 percent in four areas: accounting,
finance, marketing and international issues in business.
"It is
gratifying for both faculty and students to receive this verification of the
strength of our program," says CBA Dean Louis Pol. "We are very proud of our
students and of these results."
The
results enable business programs to evaluate the level of students'
understanding within a field of study, and to assess their students' knowledge
using comparative results from numerous other business schools around the
country.
The
performance of UNO-CBA MBA students were compared to results from graduate
business students in 109 institutions, including Clemson, the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and Xavier.
CBA
undergraduate results were compared with results from 553 colleges and
universities, including Georgia State, Texas A&M, UNL and the United States
Air Force Academy.
ETS
conducts a number of major college admission and assessment examinations,
including Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and Test of English as a Foreign
Language (TOEFL). Major Field Tests are used by colleges and universities as a
national benchmark for their programs, according to the ETS.
