UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics continues to aspire to delivering inspirational education and pioneering scholarship and building inclusive communities that beneficially transform business and society. You can help Lerner fulfill its mission this GivingTuesday. Now through December 31st Lerner will be fundraising for the following six GivingTuesday projects, led by students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Contributions can be made at any level to support a cause close to your heart and make an impact on students and programs through Lerner’s GivingTuesday efforts. The following Lerner projects are located under Business & Entrepreneurship in the Giving Tuesday portal:
Data Enchanted: The Econ Games – Data Enchanted, a Taylor Swift-themed data workshop series, introduces students to coding and data analysis and provides a fun, supportive environment for students to develop these skills. Students learn to use the statistical software Stata to build, clean and transform data for analysis through this eight-party series. Data Enchanted prepares students for a 24-hour data competition called The Econ Games. For the past four years, a team of undergraduate students from a variety of majors have participated in this intense challenge in which teams analyze data and present their findings to a panel of industry partners.
Lerner MBA Program: Student Support Fund – The Lerner MBA Program and the MBA Student Association (MBASA) are raising funds that make it possible to plan and host hands-on learning and experiential opportunities for our MBA students. Gifts support student-led events, conferences, case competitions and networking opportunities organized by MBASA and the Lerner MBA Program.
M.S. Business Analytics & Information Management – Gifts ignite transformative moments for students such as career-defining conferences, electrifying case competitions, and meaningful connections with alumni who’ve blazed the trail before them.
M.S. International Business – Gifts empower international business students to participate in international conferences, prestigious networking events, global business competitions and hands-on experiential learning opportunities that are critical in today’s interconnected business landscape.
Transformational Experiences in Finance – Provides finance students with opportunities to attend financial conferences as well as visit regional employers in the finance industry. Recent student events include touring ACRES Capital’s Long Island headquarters and meeting with the C-Suite leadership team, attending the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Private Credit Finance Summit in New York City, and a trip to Baltimore, Maryland, for a private tour of T. Rowe Price’s trading floor. Additionally, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Philadelphia has been instrumental in hosting multiple finance workshops specifically for UD finance students which has included hardhat tours of two active development projects in Philadelphia.
Lerner UDREAM Program – Supports UDREAM efforts of assisting freshmen students transition from high school through matriculation at the University of Delaware at the Lerner College of Business and Economics. UDREAM provides academic coaching and peer mentor support for select freshmen students.