Business Club
Why join the Club?
Great place to learn more about business practices through the following activities:
- Leadership Opportunities
- Guest Speakers
- Field Trips
- Compete with club members in the Virtual Stock Exchange stock market game (Top prize awarded during the End-of-Year/Graduation Party)
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. Club members are trained using the IRS Link and Learn to file low-income families and seniors, along with students
- Networking with WWU faculty and students
- Quarterly Social Networking Events
- Fall Quarter Fall Kickoff Party/Membership Drive and the Business Jeopardy Trivia Team Competition
- Fall Quarter WWU Teaching Scholarship Conference
- Fall Quarter UW Success in Business Conference
- Fall Quarter Holiday Party and Gag Gift Exchange
- Winter Quarter Business Wheel of Fortune Team Competition
- Winter Quarter Bowling Social Networking teaming students with business leaders
- Spring Quarter Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series
- Spring Quarter College Bowl Team Competition
- Spring Quarter Bocce Ball Social Networking teaming students with business leaders
- Spring Quarter End-of-Year/Graduation Party
Join the Business Club Website
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WCCBUSCLUB
Anyone can register and request to join. The Faculty Club Advisor then will accept your invitation to join if you are a current WCC student, faculty, or staff member. Once you have officially joined the website you can download a club application, check on the Calendar of Events, read all communication, etc.
Join the Business Club Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE) Competition:
Here are the details for joining the stock game from the club website:
1.Go to the LINKS section of the club website;
2.Click on the Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE);
3.The game ID is 2010wccbus (lower case letters)
4.The name of the game is: WCC BUS CLUB (you may not need to know this);
5.This is a Private Game so the password to get in is: nyse
Meeting Dates/Times/Location and Calendar of Events:
When: 2nd and 4th Fridays
Time: 2:00-3:00 (unless otherwise posted)
Where: Baker Building #114 (unless otherwise posted)
Meeting Calendar of Events:
| Jan 28 | TOPIC: Opportunities and Challenges of Starting a Business GUEST SPEAKER: Wade Stringfield-Wells Fargo Bank |
| Feb 11 | TOPIC: Starting your own personal portfolio |
| Feb 22 | Field Trip to Best Western Lakeway (2-4) (Tentative) |
| Feb 25 | TOPIC: Best Practices and Career Opportunities for Accounting, Information Systems, and Finance GUEST SPEAKERS: WWU Beta Alpha Psi Officers |
| March 11 | Wheel of Fortune Competition (2-3:30) Bowling Networking/Social w/local business leaders Park Bowl (4:30-6:00) Club members Free & Non-Club Members $5 per person (includes bowling, shoes, & food) |
Officers:
| President: | Ellen Richards |
| Vice-President: | TBA |
| Finance: | TBA |
| Communications: | Michael Swift |
| Recorder: | Lea Wisibono |
Merrianne Bieler, Faculty Advisor
360-383-3502
mbieler@whatcom.ctc.edu