BYU - Marriott School - MBA Newsletter


	April 2008
Contents Front Page Letter from Director Craig Merrill Alumni Alumni Feature: Mike Moore-Building Better Lives through the WVDSA Alumni Feature: Rob J. ThurstonHelping the Search for a Cure Send Us Your Updates Faculty & Staff Bill Giauque Retires in Summer 2007 Kaye Hanson Retires in August 2008 Kristin Adair Assumes Director Role of MBA Student Recruiting Kate Kirkham to Retire in Fall 2008 Students MBA Ambassador Program Continues The Marriott School Shop: A Student-Run Business Rankings MBA Rankings Links Marriott School of Management BYU MBA Program MBA Alumni Portal Events Calendar	Kristin Adair Assumes Director Role of MBA Student Recruiting The BYU MBA recruiting team welcomed Kristin Adair back to campus this fall as the new director of MBA student recruiting. Tad Brinkerhoff, the former director of MBA student recruiting, recently assumed a role working exclusively with the EMBA program. Adair is no stranger to academic administration, having worked in administration for two different colleges before pursuing an MBA. After completing her MBA from BYU in 2006, Adair went to work for GE Money as an HR generalist at their Burbank, California, and Kettering, Ohio, locations. As director of MBA student recruiting, Adair works with current MBA students, faculty, staff, and administration to find and recruit key talent to enter BYUs MBA program. Adair has several goals and initiatives in her new position, one of which is to increase the number of qualified students who can bring a unique perspective to BYUs MBA program. As BYUs MBA program has typically been more homogenous than the average MBA program, Adair and Kevin Giddins, director of diversity recruiting, are putting tremendous effort into increasing diversity and the number of diverse students who both apply and attend. Adair says, I would like to help populations who are underrepresented in the MBA program realize that there is a spot for them here and that we are interested in what they have to bring to the table. A particular focus of Adairs diversity push is increasing the number of female MBA students at BYU. Adair planned and carried out a dinner winter semester, which was exclusively for potential female MBA students and featured speakers as well as both career and informational break-out sessions. Another program Adair and Giddins are piloting is the MBA Academy, a program designed to prepare undergraduate students for the MBA program by aiding them with GMAT preparation, job placement, and mentoring. I would like to help females recognize they can be successful in this program and that there is no reason to feel inadequate or concerned about being a female business student here at BYU, Adair says. Its an amazing education that will make a tremendous difference in a persons life. More information about the MBA Academy can be found at marriottschool.byu.edu/diversity/mba_academy.cfm.