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Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Events
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Events
Orientation Week
The Faculty held its annual Orientation
Week between October 4 and 6, 2010.
At the beginning of Orientation Week,
new students are welcomed by the Presi -
dent of the University and the Dean of
the Faculty, followed by a shared buffet
breakfast in the university refectory
together with professors, members of
staff and student representatives. The
new Bachelor students, in particular,
are introduced to their schedules and
familiarized with campus life before
joining their fellow students from higher
semesters for a tour of the university
and the city. Under the mentoring program
for the Bachelor courses, where
new students are assigned to small
groups, the newcomers meet their mentor,
a member of the research staff of
the Faculty. Orientation Week closes
with a party – the highlight of the week.
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Above: The traditional alumnus keynote address during
the 2010 Faculty Day was delivered by Dr. Andreas
Leimbach, the Managing Director of SolarKapital GmbH,
who graduated with an economics degree in 1985 and
completed a Ph.D. degree in 1989, both in Paderborn. In
his speech, he gave the graduates practical advice for
their careers, interspersed with humorous anecdotes
and insights into his own professional life.
Faculty Day
November 20, 2010
Faculty Day is organized annually by
the Faculty and its alumni association,
the Paderborner Hochschulkreis (PHK).
This year the event was once again
hosted by alumnus Dr. Markus Toschlä -
ger. After the keynote address (see
below) the graduates were presented
with their Bachelor, Master, diploma
and postgraduate certificates. In addition,
the following prizes were awarded:
The Paderborn Services Manage -
ment Award (500 Euros) was presented
to Tönnjes Eller by Dr. Jens Hogreve,
Junior Profes sor of Services Manage -
ment and the Foundation of Dienst leis -
tungs gruppe Salzkotten (DGS), represented
by Dr. Uwe Baer. The German
Operations Research Society’s (GOR)
Bachelor prize was presented by Prof.
Dr. Leena Suhl to Business Information
Systems graduate Timo Brandes. He
wrote his Bachelor thesis under the
supervision of Junior Professor Natalia
Kliewer and Professor Suhl at the Chair
of Decision Support & Operations
Research Lab. The award comes with
one year’s free membership to GOR,
sponsored by the Springer publishing
house. The Dean awarded prizes from
the Paderborner Hochschulkreis (PHK)
to the following outstanding graduates:
Dr. Karl-Heinz Gerholz (Ph.D.), Oliver
Opitz (Diploma in Business Adminis tra -
tion), Eva Rüschen (Master in Business
and Human Resource Education) and
Matthias Rüther (Bachelor in Econo mics).
The graduate speech this year was held
by Master graduate Stephan Albert ernst,
who encouraged his fellow graduates
to look to the future with confidence
and thanked the professors of the Faculty
for their commitment. During the drinks
reception following the more than twohour
ceremony students and staff had
enough time to bid farewell to one
another. Besides the traditional group
photograph of the graduating class the
Faculty had organized an opportunity
for graduates to have their picture taken
in their graduation robes: a special
souvenir to remind them of the 2010
Faculty Day. The event continued into
the early hours of the morning – after
8 p.m the area outside the lecture hall
was transformed into a dance floor for
the graduation ball. For more information,
go to www.phk-ev.de
Below: Faculty Day was once again hosted by alumnus
Dr. Markus Toschläger.