Sentinel: Stallions Newsletter Fall 2021

Enactus
business administration department
Zainabou Oumarou Medjiguida, Blerona Zulfaj and Saida Meidinova (MBA) are participating in the Enactus Entrepreneurial
Exchange Program. This is a 6-week entrepreneurial immersion program that takes students through project ideation, implementation,
and impact phases. They are collaborating in small teams with Enactus students from Morocco and other U.S. universities. The
program concludes with each team developing a project pitch to create impact and compete for prize money. The program runs
from October 25 to December 10. For more information about Enactus, please contact Dr. Oscar Gonzales, ogonzales@na.edu.
Small Business Expo
Mary Leeyn Martinez Santos, Melisa Pino Oliva, Zainabou Oumarou Medjiguida
(students in MNGT 4314 Small Business Management) together with Abdoulkarim
Oumarou Medjiguida (Computer Science) attended the Small Business Expo event
held on November 16, 2021, at the Bayou Event Center. The Small Business Expo is an
annual networking and educational event for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Topics focus on business growth strategies and increasing revenue which relate
well to the MNGT 4314 class taught by Mr. Jose Velarde.
The final project in MNGT 4314 is a business plan for the creation
of a small business. Mr. Velarde works closely with students in his class and challenges them to be ready to launch their
business by the end of the class. He asked his students to attend the Small Business Expo to see first-hand the options
currently available should they decide to open a small business after graduation.
ETS Test for Business Administration Students
Prior to graduation, students in the Business Administration department take an Educational Testing Service (ETS) Major Field Test.
This is a comprehensive, national test used to measure each student’s level of achievement and to evaluate the Business Administration
department’s degree programs. The test covers business knowledge in a combination of areas such as marketing, management,
finance, and accounting. For undergraduate Business students, testing is administered in BUSI 4317. For graduate-level
students, the ETS test for the MBA is taken in MBA 5317. Dr. John Topuz coordinates this effort with Dr. Tawfiq Abu-Raqabeh, who
is teaching MBA 5317 and BUSI 4317. This Fall 2021 semester, Dr. Topuz has worked with several students in MBA 5317 to schedule
testing, and next semester, students taking BUSI 4317 or MBA 5317 will receive more information from him regarding the ETS test.
For questions about the ETS test, please contact Dr. John Topuz, john@na.edu.
Speaker Series : Global Supply Chain
December 6: Speaker Series focused on Supply Chain Management, 12 – 1 PM.
Mr. Jose Velarde (NAU Adjunct Faculty Member in the Business Administration Department) and other
members of Houston’s Association for Supply Chain Management held a discussion on the nature and
significance of supply chains. The panel commented on the global supply chain crisis, the importance of
cyber security in supply chain, and ASCM Houston events and resources.
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