NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 2020

FACULTY'S ACHIEVEMENTS

Ali Hashmi

Professor Ali Hashmi discusses in his article the importance of Mentorship Programs for students and how they can be use in order improve new skillsets in the classroom. The most important role nowadays within the virtual environment is making sure that students experience remains effective and the close interaction with professors in a Mentorship role will help them to develop leadership skills and advanced in their careers always focusing at the needs of today’s society.

ALUMNI'S ACHIEVEMENTS

Stephanie Almanzar

In November 2020, we were able to celebrate our alumnus Stephanny Almanzar for becoming a finalist on Impúlsate Popular with her Project Nature U, a company dedicated to the production of natural hair products, and receiving a special mention for its social impact.

Impúlsate Popular is a program that supports young entrepreneurs by granting winners investment capital to help them build their brand and start monetizing their ideas. The BBA community is proud to see their students achieving their dreams while contributing to a social impact issue.

Our BBA students were able to accomplish a great goal by completing their professional careers in such difficult situations. We are thrilled for their accomplishments and success and are excited to see what their future holds.

Class of December 2020

FIU GRADUATION

YAMILE HAZIM

THE BRAND BUILDING INSTITUTE

Yamile Hazim is a marketer and creator of the digital magazine Revoltiao and The Brand Building Institute, where she teaches people how they can discover their happiness and turn it into business. This semester she was part of the Business Management course, where she taught our students how to create branding and find the why behind a business.

Without a doubt, this was a talk full of knowledge, emotion, and inspiration. Students were able to ask questions, share their ideas, and learn more about the importance of branding behind a company in order to create a business based on what makes them happy and inspires them.

RICARDO ARBONA

MY FINANCIAL ARCHITECT

The Business Management students were able to hear from Ricardo Arbona, an entrepreneur and co-founder of My Financial Architect (myfintect), a company that helps and teaches Millennials about financial literacy and financial decisions. Arbona delivered a great presentation about personal finances and their importance in our personal life, and also how to manage finances successfully in the business scope.

STUDENT’S TESTIMONIES

Joan García

My experience with UNIBE Collaborate has been overall, pleasant and satisfactory. Although, I have to acknowledge that there are still some areas where the service can improve. Aside from the connection issues, I believe this platform is great for virtual learning and does a good job of connecting many people together for learning purposes.

Ileana Paula

The online classes are one of the most interesting things that could ever happen to my professional career. There’s improvement with the studentprofessor interactions, and enhanced time efficiency management. It also granted me the opportunity to face new challenges in the Elearning process that enabled me space to grow. Overall, ’it s been an amiable experience that I look forward into next semester.

Montserrat Jorge

Using Blackboard Collaborate was initially surreal, perhaps because of the situation that we are now facing. UNIBE and the BBA program surprised me at their quick adaptability of the conference tools that Backboard offers. There certainly was a learning curve, where both students and teachers had our missteps, but I can confidently claim that by the end of our first online semester both faculty and students felt better equipped with this platform.

Maria Laura Dionicio

Blackboard Collaborate has been our number one virtual partner through this time of crisis. Blackboard Collaborate is a user-friendly platform that gives us the ability to stay engaged with the class with the different learning tools that it offers. If I were to identify any problems with it, I would say none come from the platform itself. The only problem related to the platform is that, depending on the user, a poor internet connection doesn't let users follow up with the class concurrently.