Dawgs on Top: The Georgia MBA

In this episode, which is a recording of a virtual event, we talk with 4 of our current MBA students who served or are serving in the US military, all second-year students: Kayla Vickers, Jason Hedrick, Mason Strain, and Allan Wiltshire. They are coming to the end of their time here in the program and had a lot to share about their experiences. Listen in to hear more about what they did before the program and what they will be doing post-MBA (and how they got there!). Kayla Vickers was serving as Clinical Director of Optometry at Fort Hood’s Carl T. Darnall Army Medical Center before joining the program. She interned in Operations with Cox Communications and after graduation, she will be posted to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio as a Healthcare Administrator. Pre-MBA Jason Hedrick was an Army Aviation Officer. He interned at Bank of America and will be joining them as a Global Technology & Operations Rotational Associate after he graduates. Mason Strain served as a U.S Army Infantry Officer and his last position before joining the program was as a Platoon Leader at Arlington National Cemetery. Post-MBA, he will be working in Walmart’s Operations Leadership Development Program. Before the program, Allan Wiltshire served as a Special Operations Team Commander with the US Marine Corps. Post-MBA, he will be working for Merrill Lynch as a Wealth Management Advisor.You can learn more about the veteran experience in our program by following the Georgia MBA Veterans Club on LinkedIn. Other resources include the Student Veterans Resource Center and the Military page of our website. We are a Yellow Ribbon program and all U.S. military personnel are eligible for application fee and test score waivers. If you have suggestions for future topics, please let us know! You can always reach us at georgiamba at uga dot edu. If you want to learn more about the program, you can always visit terry.uga.edu/mba/fulltime. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram. We also have a YouTube playlist and that link is in the show notes. Thank you to our producer Scott Duvall of jawavifilms. Stay safe, everyone. We look forward to hearing from you, and…GO DAWGS!

In this episode, we talk with Chad Mandala, Ph.D candidate and director of the University’s Pride Center about his work supporting queer and trans students, Pride Center history, and what the Pride Center offers today. What many people don’t know is that UGA holds an important place in gay history. Fifty years ago this November, UGA was home to the first student organization in the university system supporting gay students – The Committee on Gay Education (CGE). In the spring of 1972, they sued the institution for the right to hold a dance, the first gay dance at a southern public institution. And they won. That organization lives on today as the Pride Alliance. The Pride Center was founded in 1995 and was the first within the University system.The UGA Special Collections Library has more detailed information about CGE and GLOBES, UGA’s faculty staff LGBTQ organization, through their Making Space: Fighting for Inclusion, Building Community at UGA digital archive. You can also view a digital pop-up about the Pride Center created for it's 20th anniversary.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist or our playlist of recorded events. And lastly, a big shout out to our producer, Scott Duvall of Jawavi Films!  

In this episode, we are sharing the recording of a recent live event with 4 of our international students: Franklin Nwachukwu, MBA ’23; Priscilla Miuiane MBA ’23; Aakash Khadka, MBA ’23; and Vishakha Tiwari, MBA ’22. We had a lively and candid conversation about their experiences as students in the program. Listen in to learn more about how the curriculum prepares them for their internships, how the MBA/MSBA STEM track will prepare them for careers in the US, and what it’s like living in Athens.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist or our playlist of recorded events. And lastly, a big shout out to our producer, Scott Duvall of Jawavi Films!

In this episode, we are sharing the recording of a recent live event with 4 of our students of color and members of the Black MBA student group: Nick Collins MBA ’22; Gbenga Enoch, MBA ’22; Priscilla Miuiane MBA ’23; and Kayla Vickers MBA ’22. We had a lively and candid conversation about their experiences as students in the program and as students of color at a predominantly white institution. For more information about the history of Black students at UGA, check out this digital archive from the Special Collections Library: Making Space: Fighting for Inclusion, Building Community at UGA.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist or our playlist of recorded events. And lastly, a big shout out to our producer, Scott Duvall of Jawavi Films! 

In this episode, I am sharing the recording of a recent live event with 3 of our female students and members of the Graduate Women’s Business Association: Colleen Kelleher MBA ’22; Gayatri Belhekar, MBA ’23; and Callie Weir, MBA ’23. They were very candid in sharing about their experiences in the program to date and how they overcame the challenges they have faced so far. Listen in to hear about their journeys.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist. Produced by Jawavifilms. Kaltura playlist of our live recordings.  

Welcome back to Dawgs on Top! With Season 4, we want to broaden the scope while also focusing on a theme. Diversity is top of mind to many of us and a critical piece of any MBA program. In the Full-Time MBA program, we know we are responsible for offering the best possible experience to all of our students and we will not succeed at that unless we continually strive to expand our efforts to be more diverse, more inclusive, more equitable and better attuned to creating a welcoming environment for everyone. I named this season Perspectives for those reasons and want this season to present the stories of people who are 100% committed to protecting and expanding the diversity of life experience that matters most to them. I will be sharing some recorded live events with our students, interviewing some of our faculty at the Terry College about their research, and interviewing some more Athens leaders who have found their passion and placed a flag in their corner of the universe that they want to make better for everyone. You can always reach us at georgiamba at uga dot edu. If you want to learn more about the program, you can always visit terry.uga.edu/mba/fulltime. You can also find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We also have a YouTube playlist and that link is also I the show notes. Thanks again for joining us. Stay safe. We look forward to hearing from you, and…GO DAWGS!

In this episode, we talk with two staff members with UGA’s University Health Center: Kristin Groft, Senior Communications Coordinator, and Liana Natochy, their Alcohol and Other Drugs Education Coordinator. The UHC has about 300 staff serving the University’s 37,000 and 10,000 staff and has been serving the University for over 100 years. They provide a wide range of services and programming, from primary care to virtual yoga, all aimed at keeping the University community healthy. As you might expect, they have been a critical resource during COVID-19. Listen in and learn more about how they serve the community. And just a note about the audio quality for this episode. We did have a recording snafu, so the audio is not as good as usual, but the content is still interesting and useful so we are publishing it anyways!

In this final episode of the season, we talked with Jake Mosley, Director of Student Engagement and two second year students, Emylee Connally and Lily Waldron, about our Leadership Fellows program. Leadership development is an integral part of our MBA program, especially since students are getting an MBA to become better managers and leaders. We’ve had a leadership development program for many years now, and it has evolved over time to meet the needs of the market and our students. Like the rest of our curriculum, the leadership fellows programs offers students the flexibility to choose the academic and co-curricular activities that best fit their individual leadership journeys.View to the slides and audio together for this episode and all of our live events from this fall.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist. 

In this episode, we talked with Jiwon Park, MBA Career Training & Development Specialist, and Siddhant Agarwal, MBA Class of 2021, about what Athens, UGA and the program offer our international students. International applicants are often making the decision of where to apply and attend without the opportunity to visit the program and meet people in person. This adds additional stress and uncertainty to an important life decision. Athens is a great place to live and UGA is an impressive institution by any measure. We hope what we discuss in this episode provides a better picture of what it means to be an MBA student at the University of Georgia. Listen to the slides and audio together.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist.

In this episode, we talked with Jake Mosley, Director of Student Engagement and Travis Hawkins, a second year student, about our curriculum and concentration offerings and how those align with career paths. With 9 concentrations and 3 areas of focus, our students choose from a menu of required and elective courses to design their individual programs of study. This flexibility of elective offerings allows our students to mindfully customize their academic experience so that they can position themselves competitively in the job market. Program staff give students the tools to make this program what they need it to be. Our job is to curate the best possible experience for them. Faculty and staff here at Terry are dedicated to the success of our students. In particular, career management staff provide personalized support to each of our students. One size does not fit all here at Terry and we help all our students find their place in business.Listen to the slides and audio together.Connect with Admissions by signing up for a 1-on-1 appointment, register for any of our virtual events or reach out to an MBA Ambassador directly to learn more about the student experience. Learn more about the Georgia MBA and find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot, and check out our YouTube playlist.