Before I talk about the next new course in the business school, I just want to note that serendipity rocks! I planned for this week to talk about a class that bridges the divide between science and business students, and a few days ago I had two meetings that are entirely about that idea. The first meeting was with the Sarah Lubik and Wendee Wong at the i2I program at SFU. The program helps people in science academia understand commercialization and market implementation of their inventions. For so long we have talked about getting innovation out of the ivory tower and into the streets but that usually means throwing academics and business people into a room and hoping that something happens. This program is specifically designed for science graduate students, so it identified what the group is comfortable with, their pain points, and their needs. You know... market research. With this approach the program has been impactful and accepted by the Science faculty at SFU and across Canada. Right after that meeting I met with Deborah Roberts, Mauricio Dziedzic and Mary Mytting about more collaboration between business, science, and engineering at UNBC. We had a great discussion about majors for innovation in science and engineering degrees, as well as a possible development of an i2I program for undergrads. What started off this discussion though was the development of a new course that will be available in January. COMM 498 Tech Entrepreneurship (crossslisted with Computer Science) is meant to bring together business and computer science students who are interested in exploring the intersection between business and software development. The course alternates between business and computer science perspectives to show students in each discipline how they can interact with each other. Students will be put into mixed groups and provided mentors so they can develop an idea into a business plan and a working prototype. Students will then present this to a group of investors in town. A big shout-out to Hubspace for helping us embed the class in the local tech community, working to bring other partners on board, making the poster below! Watch this space to see when the class is available for registration. Note: I don't teach as many classes as I used to so I won't be teaching this class. And it is tearing me up inside.
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Missed my Friday post this week since I was marking. This weekend I am putting together material for the Program Review of the School of Business (which I have nicknamed Project Horus). Thank you Aliya, Carla, and Ronald for the great leadership advice around this and other issues this week. I also got a chance to talk to the informal Board for the Northern Family Support Program (NFSP) at UNBC, with Francesco Bartolillo, Carolyn Chrobot, Lesley Schwab, Makenna Schwab, and others. We had a great discussion of what we want to do with the course/program and how changes in the School of Business will affect the makeup of the course. For those of you new to the channel, the NFSP is a joint program with the Schools of Business and Social Work. I have posted a video from a few years ago that will give you an idea of what the program is about. https://lnkd.in/eW3tRaTB
Northern Family Support Program
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Service Design Thursday continues! UNBC Faculty of Business and Economics has just sent out an email throughout University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) announcing the Global GovJam, with a snazzy logo and everything. If you are in the City of Prince George, and are available Thursday evening Nov 7th to Saturday afternoon on Nov 9th, then join us for this incredible event. Sign up at https://lnkd.in/gSNz2Mnp to rethink, redesign, and refine our public services.
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Thanks NESS and UNBC Investment Club! I think this would be a great opportunity for our business students as well.
UNBC Investment Club and the Northern Economic Student Society (NESS) are are hosting a kickoff event to provide an opportunity for students to gain insights into strategic financial planning, market trends, investment strategies, and potential career or internship opportunities in finance.
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Another week for connections. I met with Loralyn Murdoch, the Director of Athletics, Christopher Ross from Access Privacy and Records Management, and Candice Secrist, Director of Food Services. Loralyn and I had a great chat about Athletics and its role in the University. As we in the UNBC Faculty of Business and Economics are leaning into student engagement this year, Loralyn had some excellent ideas for student events across the university and how to synergize (yeah, no, still don't like that word) with the UNBC Commerce Student Association. My talk with Chris covered an exciting new initiative in the university that will make administrative functions easier for Chairs and how privacy compliance can make it a reality. We also started talking about the "privacy by design" which of course led to a discussion about Service Design and the Global Gov Jam. Hopefully we have more people interested in the event from inside University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). And this afternoon I talked to Candice. This was my first "touch base" discussion since we talked last year. As we ramp up student events, catering becomes more important. I heard a lot of praise about working with Business, specifically the UNBC MBA Program. Here is to another banger year. I still need to talk Conference and Event Services, Communications, and Housing and Student Life. But what does this all have to do with a 3D printed figurine? Well, it was a present from Dr. Terry Jiang from Computer Science here at UNBC. You never know what these connections can bring. Sometimes a connection can bring up great research collaborations and then bring you a fig of the Destined One from Black Myth: Wukong.
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Looks like Thursday is Service Design Thursday. My copy of "Transforming Higher Education with Human-Centred Design" arrived a few weeks ago. I read the last section on Student Experience and got some excellent ideas of how to engage with students. I will try to actually read it like a book and not a journal article. Also a little over a month until the Global GovJam. Signup today and join us as we rethink, redesign, and remake our public services. https://lnkd.in/gAY7gn52
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Mary, Aryanshu, and Emily, spent time this week gathering information about the Terrace Women's Resource Centre Society for the UNBC Business Clinic class. Thanks to Amanita Coosemans and MaKailey Mcleod for being patient and answering their questions. And thank you to Kristin Giannotti and MNP for hosting us. Good job team! Can't wait to see what you come up with.
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We have some incredibly interesting teaching presentations from our candidates for the Assistant Professorship in Sustainable Business at the UNBC School of Business. On Wednesday Sept 25th, Dr. Elisabeth Garriga will be available for a teaching presentation at 1:45pm - 3:15pm in room 5-175. And on Thursday September 26th, Dr. Yuxi Zhao will be presenting in room 10-4588 at 1:45pm - 3:15pm. It would be great to see members of the UNBC Commerce Student Association there.