SU Online To Make Significant Changes
To Search Features for Spring Quarter

…Is online registration far away?

You may or may not have heard rumblings that changes to SUOnline were in the works. Or maybe you just silently hoped they were in the works! The good news is that a small committee has been working tirelessly to improve the ‘Search’ features of SUOnline – meaning the way you go about looking for classes has been expanded and is much more user friendly. 

The new ‘Search’ feature is up and running for spring registration (which begins the end of this month). For spring quarter, registration will still take place through the EASE touchtone system. BUT, the plan is to give students the option of completing add/drop activity online – this is new! 

Come summer and fall registration, all registration activity will take place online. That’s right – no more checking the web and then finding a phone to call in on. Once all the kinks have been worked out and troubleshooting seems to have cleaned up the glitches, there will be a campus-wide announcement advertising this. You heard it here first.

Keep an eye out for updates as this month goes on. We’ll keep you informed via the ASBE undergraduate list serve so if you have not been receiving emails from Jennifer Tufano please let her know by emailing tufanoj@seattleu.edu. Stay informed! 

International Development Internship Program 

** now accepting applications for summer and fall quarter **

Ever thought of traveling to Latin America, Asia or Africa? Join this month’s information session with Dr. Janet Quillian, Internship Director, to learn more about this unique experience. 

Information Session held on Tuesday, February 26th from 12-1pm, location TBD

ASBE Strategic Planning Process Moving Ahead

From Dean Joe Phillips

The Albers School of Business and Economics (ASBE) launched a strategic planning project in January that will help set the course for the school over the next five years. A planning team of 35 faculty, staff, students, alumni, business community representatives and others met January 18th and 19th to initiate the process. The larger group has been broken into six task forces that will work in specific areas between now and the next meeting of the full group on March 2nd. The process will continue through May and is designed to incorporate the input of all ASBE stakeholder groups.

Two outside facilitators, Mike Diamond and Mike Moore are guiding the process. Moore and Diamond have led similar processes at other leading business schools around the nation, including Duke University, University of Southern California, Syracuse University, and Brigham Young University.

Undergraduate students are represented by senior economics major Matt Ritsema and Lisa Pascuzzi, a senior accounting major. Students should feel free to contact Matt and Lisa to find out more about the process. Students can also check the strategic planning web site (http://www.seattleu.edu/asbe/plan/) for more information.

Our strategic plan will give us a new mission statement for ASBE, as well as shared values, distinctive capabilities, measures of success, and the strategies needed to realize our distinctive capabilities. It is an important process for the school and our students. The ultimate purpose of planning is to create a stronger and more vibrant business school.