At a Glance: September 16, 2024
Online Programs Announcements | |
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| Deadline to Apply to the December 2024 Degree List | |
| Learners in their final semester of their program this fall must submit their application for graduation by Sunday, November 3. Submitting this application will add your name to the December 2024 degree list, allowing you to receive your diploma and have your degree awarded. Please note that this application does not register you for the convocation ceremony, which is optional and requires its own registration process. | |
| Empower Your Workplace With Gies Online | |
| Our Online Programs at Gies College of Business cater to a diverse range of professional backgrounds and employers. We would love to meet some of your coworkers and share details on how graduate education can help them and your company succeed. Can you put us in touch with your HR department? Do you have a business club or professional group at work that could benefit from learning about Gies? We would love to have you join us for a presentation to share the student experience while we explain all of the Gies credentials we have to offer. We are excited to create new relationships with your colleagues! Reach out to Marcus Phillips for more information. | |
| Gies Business Reaches 33K Learners in Ukraine Through Free Online Courses | |
| More than 33,000 learners in Ukraine have taken advantage of a new online education program offered in partnership between Gies College of Business and Prometheus. The program, launched in early 2024, offers a series of fully online business courses to learners in war-torn Ukraine through Prometheus World University. Read more about the program here. | |
| Creative Idea Generation at Work Leads to Indulgent Behaviors Afterwards | |
| New research co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert in work behaviors and organizations, Gies Professor Jack Goncalo, shows that engaging in brief creative ideation tasks can have detrimental consequences for one’s short-term health choices. Across multiple experiments with more than 3,400 participants, the study found that engaging in a creative-idea generation task subsequently led to more indulgent eating, drinking and exercise behaviors. Read more about the study here. | |
| This Week at Gies Use the Event Calendar for information on upcoming events, such as iConverge and iDegree Convocation, as well as academic dates and deadlines for the semester. Click event titles below for details on the events happening this week. | |
| Las Vegas Meet Up | |
| Monday, September 16 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm PT | |
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