Welcome to MAPs Kickoff Luncheon

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Welcome to MAPs Kick-off Luncheon

• MAPs - Multidisciplinary Academic Partnerships
• Connecting Business
• and Academic Communities

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Key Players for MAPS

• Dr. Myers - Marketing, co-project leader,
  Discipline Leader
• Dr. Shwiff Economics, co-project leader,
  Discipline Leader
• Dr. Alexander - MIS, Discipline Leader
• Dr. Edelman - Accounting, Discipline Leader
• Dr. Humphreys - Management, Discipline Leader
• Dr. Ogunc - Eco-Finance, Discipline Leader
• Dr. Collins - Management, Business Relations,
  coordinating businesses and projects
• Mrs. Gibson Key Graduate Assistant and project
  development

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Investment Strategy Education
Mock Interviews
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Discipline Conferences
ManagementTraining
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Pre-coursers to MAPs

• Student Leigh Gable
• Marketing Plan Project for HIT Entertainment of
  Allen, TX, home of the Barney character
• Won Summer Internship in London
• Regional Mgr for a Beer Distributor

• Student David Nkhwazi
• Spring Project for SMEI
• Internship at AMS Production Group, Dallas, TX,
  movie production with Hollywood firms
• Mid level manager for a production company

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The Big Picture

• University Strategic Plan - We will increase
  graduation rates of students who are well
  prepared for successful career
• The College of Business and Technology is a
  scholarly and professional community
  dedicated..., intellectual development, and
  service opportunities in a learning-centered
  environment.

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Program Mission

• 1. Fulfilling the TAMU-C strategic plan of
  attracting, retaining, and graduating outstanding
  students
• 2. Provide environments to enable students, .
  to develop their capabilities, build their
  understanding, increase their knowledge, and
  expand their service.

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What is MAPS?

• MAPs is Multidisciplinary Academic Partnerships
• This partnership, connects students and
  organizations or businesses through projects.
• Actual business projects or problems are
  submitted and screened by a multi-discipline
  group based on problem definition.
• Student applicants are screened on knowledge,
  performance in classes, and recommendations.
• Student teams are formed, Businesses respond to
  RFIs

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What is MAPS? How does it work?

• Company Work. Company Needs.
• Members of the Student team meet with the company
  to understand their problems and goals.
• Analysis and Synthesis
• Faculty work with the team to ensure that each
  element of the program is relevant, cohesive, and
  meaningful. Mentors also.
• Solution Design
• At times, the student team may sit down with the
  company to revisit initial criteria and ensure
  all criteria are met and all goals are being
  achieved (i.e. scheduled reviews)

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What is MAPs?

• Solution Delivery
• Student teams meet with multiple faculty members
  to insure solutions and resources are
  appropriate.
• Post-program Learning
• The appropriate post-program communication
  cadence helps reinforce learning from the
  classroom to the workplace.
• Evaluation and Evolution
• Team and company meet as appropriate to assess
  immediate feedback from program participants and
  the performance feedback from company management.

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What are the Program Benefits?

• For Business Partners
• Addressing firm or organizational specific issues
• Similar programs identify the open market cost of
  15,000 to 40,000 for the work performed for
  them.
• Potential to recruit students on completion of
  studies.

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What are the Program Benefits?

• For Students
• Experiential learning by application of classroom
  concepts to specific project work in a real
  world business environment.
• Gain and develop key business skills to meet the
  needs of employers.
• For Faculty and TAMU-C
• Fulfillment of TAMUC strategic plan
• Enrollment growth and an opportunity to prepare
  and enable students

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How to Participate?

• Mentor
• By donating a little of your time, you can make
  a big
• difference.
• Add value and depth to our students
• Consulting Projects
• Improve your business
• More resources to focus on problems or
  opportunities
• Scholarships
• Fund a student's education in the program

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Why MAPs?

• Core Competencies defined by Business Community
• Ability to communicate in both oral and written
  form.
• Ability to quantify and analyze problems and
  solutions.
• Ability to synthesize information and reach a
  conclusion and defend the solution.