Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Who you gunna call? Cohort Reps!

Do you have a program issue that you would like to address but don't know who to talk to? This year the Communications Committee established the cohort rep position to help facilitate communication between first year EWMBA students and the EWMBA Association. While the cohort reps will communicate important information and announcements to their cohort-mates, they are also available to receive feedback regarding the program and transmit it to the appropriate committees.

Don't be shy. Talk to your reps and let them know what is on you mind so the EWMBA Association can take action to improve your experience at Haas.

If you missed the announcements the first time, here are the reps for each first year cohort:

Blue - Mimi Frusha
Gold - Patrick Fischer
Axe - George Kong
Oski - Dhiren Bhatia

Friday, March 14, 2008

The EWMBAA eZine

Want to know what's happening this week for EWMBAs at Haas?

Every EWMBA student should be receiving an eZine email from Ben or Anlei each week, but in case you missed it in your mailbox, just click on the EWMBAA eZine link to the right to access this week's eZine with the latest news, headlines, and updates from your fellow EWMBAA committees.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Welcome to the EWMBAA Communications Committee blog!

The committee was formed in February this year as the marketing communications arm of the EWMBA Student Association (otherwise known as the EWMBAA).

Committee members are students like yourself but with too much time on their hands:

Co-chairs: Ben Chong and Anlei Lee
Members: Mimi Frusha, Alison Kubota, Sriram Kumar, Christina Stewart
Executive Officer: Krupa Singampalli

In addition, we have cohort reps to make sure that the needs of first year students are taken care of (finance past exam papers, anyone?). They are: Mimi, George Kong and Patrick Fischer.

See if you can identify us by sight when you are at the Haas or Santa Clara campuses. To help you, check out: https://facebook.haas.berkeley.edu/

The committee’s immediate goals are the following:
a. Outreach
b. Build a one-stop source of information
c. Build a community

The weekly EWMBAA eZine is part of our outreach program. If you are not reading it yet, please do so. It provides a summary of events and news for EWMBA students. With all due respect to Siu Yung and Charlene, if there’s one email in your mba.berkeley.edu mailbox you should read, it is this one .

We are also trying to make the EWMBAA website (http://www.haasewmbaa.com) the jumping off point to get information related to student life, whether it is one of Siu Yung’s Catching Up emails that you missed, CareerNet or the calendar of events at Haas.

Finally, we want to build an online community that will extend beyond the Yahoo! mailing lists and the various blue/gold/axe/oski cohorts. For this, we are working on a web-based discussion forum that will allow students of all years to mingle and talk. We want to break out of the ’08/’09/’10 silos and enable better networking. More information will be available shortly.

If you are reading this blog, the Communications Committee is doing its job. However, that job is never finished and we need your help. This is because all communications is two-way.

We are committed (no pun intended) to listen to your feedback and will keep you up to date with information that is relevant to your life here at Haas.