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Smith Undergraduate Fellows Program
The Smith Undergraduate Fellows Program is an innovative
concept in undergraduate business education, offering a series of special
academic programs—or tracks—which will create small communities of scholars
within the larger Smith School community. Beginning with the launch of the
Freshman Fellows Program in Fall 2006, each specialized Fellows program combines
opportunities for action learning and professional development with rigorous
in-depth academic coursework focused on cutting edge issues affecting 21st
century business.
Co-curricular activities—extras that support what you are
learning in the classroom—are a key component of the Fellows program.
Field trips and internships, international study trips and exchanges, speaker
series, dinners, retreats and competitions will foster leadership skills and
contribute to your personal and professional growth. Alumni involvement is
an important aspect of Fellows programming, with Smith alumni and corporate
partners contributing their time, talents and experience through sponsorship and
participation in events and activities.
Freshman
Fellows
The Freshman Fellows track will provide enriched
opportunities for all of our newly admitted Smith freshmen students from the
moment you step on campus for Freshman Fellows Orientation, followed by
“Business Week” a yearly tradition to kick off the academic year with a series
of social and professional events and activities.
For more information,
please click
here.
International Fellows
A special group of Freshman Fellows, Smith International
Fellows are students who declare dual degrees in business and foreign language.
For more information on International Fellows, including information on your
foreign language advisor, please click here.
Accelerated Finance Fellows
The emphasis of the Accelerated Finance Fellows program is preparing students
for a high profile career in finance. In addition to traditional courses taken
by all finance majors, students in the accelerated finance fellows program will
enroll in a dedicated section of Business Finance, BMGT 340, and then pursue one
of the junior-level Finance Fellows programs in their second year.
Junior/Senior Fellowship Programs
In your junior and senior years, you will again have the opportunity to
participate in a Fellows track that allows you to specialize in a specific area
of business. Fellows programs will provide a broad range of opportunities to
specialize and integrate knowledge gained in the classroom with real-world
activities and hands-on applications in laboratories, internships and other
action-based learning.
For more information on each of the Junior/Senior Smith Fellows Programs, and
to apply online, please click on their links below
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Accounting Teaching Scholars - The AIA Department offers this
special program opportunity for undergraduate accounting students who serve
as discussion leaders and teaching assistants for the beginning accounting
courses, BMGT 220 + 221. Accounting teaching scholars earn a $3,000 yearly
stipend (depending on hours worked) while reviewing material in preparation
for the CPA exam, and practicing organizational and delivery skills. A
one-credit mentoring course is offered to prepare students for their roles
as teaching assistants.
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Business Process Fellows – The objective of the Business
Process Fellows program is to develop excellence in operations management.
Students will learn and practice business process methodologies and software
tools used by leading edge companies and agencies to design and manage
complex enterprises. The program will approach organizations as
interdependent systems, with emphasis on statistical thinking and
optimization of the enterprise. A practicum offered in conjunction with BMGT
485 Project Management course can lead to internships with partner
companies.
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Design and Innovation Marketing Fellows - The Design in Marketing
Fellows Program bridges the gap between marketing research and theory and
the realization of well-designed applications. The program curriculum and
co-curricular activities are designed to produce business leaders who can
make strategically sound and creative design decisions. Fellows program
students will master the creative problem-solving and innovative- thinking
skills and experiences along with marketing strategy and design techniques
needed to be competitive in today’s job market( including design and brand
management). This program is intendedly interdisciplinary, with mutual
benefit to be gained by collaboration between marketing students and design
students in developing creative business solutions.
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Emerging CFOs Fellows – This program is designed for students interested in
corporate finance and investment banking. It is designed to go more in depth
into corporate finance aspects of finance, and provide students with
enhanced leadership and communication skills. In addition to traditional
courses taken by all finance majors, students in this program will attend
a dedicated section of Financial Management, BMGT 440F. This section would
bring in corporate guest speakers and a case competition.
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Entrepreneurship Fellows – The Entrepreneurship Fellows Program brings
together talented Smith School students to create an entrepreneurial chemistry
that will stimulate the creation and growth of new high-potential enterprises.
The Entrepreneurship Fellows Program is a special selective track of the General
Business major, providing 4 dedicated entrepreneurship courses which prepare
students to develop great ideas into viable business ventures. Co-curricular
activities include activities and programs offered by the Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship, including “Pitch Dingman” luncheons and the Cupid’s Cup annual
business plan competition; an annual student-led entrepreneurship conference,
the CEO student organization, and optional winter study trips.
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Financial Services Fellows – This program is designed for students
interested in the financial services industry, including traditional banking
(loan officer, personal banking officer) and the financial services industry
(financial planners, personal investment managers). Emphasis on financial
services: traditional banking, financial planners, personal investment
managers Potential partners may include commercial banks, savings and loans,
credit unions, insurance companies, and financial planning firms. In
addition to traditional courses taken by all finance majors, students in
this program will attend a dedicated section of Commercial Bank Management,
BMGT 445F.
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Honors Fellows Program - The Honors Fellows program offers undergraduate
students with superior academic credentials special career-enhancing
opportunities, including the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge
research on business issues and to graduate with honors. Honors students
take their upper-level BMGT core courses in small, seminar-style honors
sections that encourage in-depth exploration in topics of marketing,
finance, management and organization, business law, and policy and strategy.
Students also have the opportunity of fulfilling one of their honors course
requirements through dedicated faculty-led winter-term study abroad trips.
The Business Honors Council provides extra-curricular activities and
community building with honors alumni.
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Leadership Fellows – Fall 2009: Leadership Fellows is an innovative
and high quality academic program aimed at selecting and developing
leadership talent for business. The program is based upon the philosophy
that quality leadership development comes from a combination of three core
elements: (1) sound leadership theories operating as guiding principles, (2)
quality leadership experiences and practices, and (3) quality feedback based
on scientific assessment tools. Students should have concrete organizational
and leadership experiences by actively participating in activities in
school, community, or business-related organizations, ideally taking on
leadership positions by their second year in the program. Students will
participate in a 360-assessment with mentoring and feedback from faculty and
student mentors, and develop a Leadership Development Plan as part of an
action-learning practicum.
- Lemma Senbet Investment Fund Fellows - The Lemma Senbet Investment
Fund Fellows is a year-long, advanced finance program available to
undergraduate finance majors in their senior year. Twelve students are
selected in the spring of their junior year to participate on the fund, two
as portfolio managers and ten as equity analysts. The program provides the
students with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in Finance
classes to actual investment decisions, through researching real companies
and managing a portfolio of real money, and through reviewing the results of
the decisions they make. At the end of the year-long commitment, the Fund
members will present their performance to Fund donors.
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Supply Chain Fellows – The Supply Chain Fellows Leadership Program offers students a unique
opportunity for learning and community both within the Smith School and with
external supply chain professionals. As part of a top-ranked program, students will
have the opportunity to take core supply chain classes together, participate as
leaders in the supply chain Society, visit regional supply chain facilities and
operations, sign up for a class that explores international and/or North
American supply chain processes, and network at local and annual meetings of
leading professional supply chain organizations. By combining classroom learning
with opportunities in the professional community, supply chain Junior-Senior
Fellows will provide a unique opportunity to build knowledge of the supply
chain
profession and create a foundation for a networked career.
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Music Management Fellows – The objective of the Music Management
Fellows program is to develop students’ interests and capabilities in the
specialized management functions involved in the business of music
management, including music marketing + promotions, production and
distribution, broadcasting, performance and production logistics in event
and tour management, and funding and management of venues and institutions.
Students will interact with and learn from experts in the field by
participating in the design and production of recorded music, live events
and programs, and through specialized clinics and internships focused on
different genres and performance environments: Music & Entertainment;
Performing Arts.
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Quantitative Finance Fellows – The Quantitative Finance Fellows
Program is for students
interested in investments, and in particular in learning more about the
software and hardware used in the financial services industry. In addition
to traditional courses taken by all finance majors, students in this program
will enroll in a non-credit section of Reuters 3000XTRA, plus BMGT 343F—a
dedicated section of Investments. This section would have a financial
markets lab requirement – extra sessions taught in the lab in which students
would be taught to use Reuters, Bloomberg and other financial markets labs
hardware and software. Students would also be eligible to participate in
winter-term study abroad trips with BMGT Honors, where focused on financial
markets.
- QUEST
(Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams) - A collaborative
partnership with the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the College of
Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, the QUEST program is an
innovative three-year quality management program with a dynamic learning
environment. Grounded in team-based courses led by an interdisciplinary
faculty, the program offers students the opportunity to study integration of
quality in the workplace while applying the knowledge and skill-set they
have gained from their major in the field of engineering, business or
computer science. QUEST graduates enter the work force excelling in
teamwork, customer value management, process and product design,
problem-solving, project management and customer satisfaction.
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Research Fellows - Research Fellows is a one-year program offering
students paid opportunities to work with one of our outstanding Smith
Faculty members on their research. Research fellows complete up to a total
of 250 hours/semester, which can be allocated as 18 hours/week for 14 weeks
or some other set hours, to be established by the faculty project
supervisor. Compensation is $5,000/year—or $2,500/semester—depending upon
hours worked. Minimum one-year commitment, may be renewed.
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Smith Technology Fellows – ST Fellows perform a variety of duties, which
may include serving as teaching assistants with technology-intensive
classes, or as research assistants, executing targeted technology
development projects for use in instruction or research, assisting faculty
and others with targeted projects involving software such as Oracle or .NET.
Some project assignments will require experience using specific software
platforms and will provide technical support for courses, assist faculty
with tutorials and demonstrations, and assist student teams in projects.
Students working on projects which require specific technology skills will
be eligible to attend vendor hands-on training sessions. Projects will
generally be defined as one semester in duration but could extend over the
academic year. Compensation for work on projects is $10/hour, with projects
ranging from 200-400 hours, which can be spread over a semester or a year.
Projects may be renewable for additional semesters.
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Sport Management Fellows – The sport management fellows program
focuses on the worldwide enterprise of sport and the prominence of organized
sports at every level in collegiate and professional sports environments,
together with the significance of auxiliary industries in sports apparel and
equipment, television contracts and other ancillary products and services.
The curriculum, including a project assignment/internship built into the BMGT 485 Project
Management course, will provide students an opportunity to focus on the
particular issues in the sports industry, and prepare them for various roles
in sport management in both the collegiate and professional sport
environments and private sector enterprises.
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STARS
– The mission of the STARS program is to encourage and attract first
generation and under represented students to the study of business, to
prepare them for college, and to encourage them to make Maryland their #1
choice. Once admitted, the program provides a supportive network for
academic success leading to graduation, and then welcomes them back as
alumni contributors to the Smith Community. The challenge is to identify and
support outstanding students interested in studying business, and to work
together with their schools and with various access programs to prepare for
admission to college. To achieve this goal, Smith School undergraduates have
developed a corps of peer-mentors who provide mentoring and academic support
to high-school students as well as to students already admitted to the
University of Maryland who seek admission to the Smith School. Student
mentors participate in visits to high schools and work with sponsored
college access programs. They visit high-school students at off-campus sites
and host these students during campus visits and educational programs such
as the annual High-School-to-College Workshops and Finance Field Day. A
one-credit course in Intergroup Communication is being considered as a
vehicle for building mentoring skills and coordinating volunteer activities.
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Technology and Business Transformation Fellows - Information Technology has
not only become the lifeline of all organizations, but also the heart of
innovation in all business sectors. The "Technology & Business Transformation
(TBT) fellows program aims to identify and train students who are passionate
about leveraging innovative technologies for business as well as for social
transformation. This highly selective Fellows program will provide students with
the opportunity to interact with faculty in small classes as well as to
collaborate with them on state-of-the-art industry and research projects. The
fellows in this program will also assist faculty in integrating emerging
technologies into the undergraduate IS curriculum.
In addition to the Fellows Programs listed above, Smith School students can
incorporate other exceptional multidisciplinary learning opportunities as part
of their degree programs. Programs like
College Park Scholars
(including Business,
Society, and the Economy);
Gemstone; and
The Hinman Campus
Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) programs join business undergraduates
with those from other disciplines. Each of these programs offers unique
learning experiences to complement a student's degree plan, and several of the
programs mentioned above were formed through partnerships with other colleges or
departments on campus.
Furthermore, Smith School students who have entrepreneurial aspirations can
utilize the many services of the
Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship which is housed in Van Munching Hall. The Dingman
Center helps students and regional entrepreneurs develop and grow their
businesses through a variety of services and programs As a nationally
recognized leader in entrepreneurship education, the Center uses its strategic
position within the Smith School to leverage resources from the entire
University to assist enterprises, thereby acting as a window to the substantial
entrepreneurial resources at the University of Maryland.
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