Helping Wharton Work Together Team
President Tannia Horodeczny: E-mail / Bio
Executive Vice Presidents
Chris Ball:E-mail / Bio
Sandeep Naik: E-mail / Bio
Treasurer Nicole Scimone: E-mail / Bio
WGAConnects
We will strengthen the ties between groups to help students and alumni build better career networks.
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Wharton Graduate Association
What is the role of the WGA? found at the Wharton website The Wharton Graduate Association (WGA) is the student government organization of the Wharton School's graduate program. Its membership is comprised of all first and second year MBA students at the Wharton School.
The WGA is the primary vehicle for coordinating and managing student activities and initiatives, both academic and extracurricular. In addition to student representation, the WGA provides monetary and logistical resources to over 100 different clubs and organizations on campus and is funded primarily through student dues. The WGA Web site is an independently managed site of the Wharton student body.
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 Tannia Horodeczny Elected as the Cohort C Career Representative, Tannia Horodeczny has been an active member of the Career Advisory Board. She also hosts weekly chats for prospective students, participates in student diaries and answers hundreds of posts of student2student. She is a member of WHAMBAA and organized the highly successful WEMBA-WOMBA mixers. Before coming to Wharton, she was the Manager of Labor Relations and Diversity. She was also an officer for her undergraduate alumni organization.
Chris Ball Chris Ball is a physician currently enrolled in the Healthcare program. He founded a communications company in the past, and now edits the consulting club's magazine 'The Edge' and Cohort E's newsletter. He also writes regularly for the Wharton Journal and runs communication workshops for WILL. He designed the end of Pre-term T-shirt, ran the Wharton World Cup Foozeball competition, and recently organized the Wharton Burns Night. He starred as the comedy dancer in this year's Follies.
Nicole Scimone Nicole has deemed it important to become involved within the Wharton community as much as possible. Since school began just last August, Nicole was elected Cohort C treasurer and became familiar with the WGA accounting systems. She has participated in the Follies, worked as an active member of the Marketing Club, volunteered for the Admissions Committee, Into the Streets, and Rebuilding Together and works as a bartender at the WGA PUB. She is currently involved in GCP and is a CPA.
Monday, February 17, 2003 Campaign Calendar Monday, February 17: Campaigning begins
Monday, February 24: Candidates debate
Wednesday, February 26 and Thursday, February 27: Elections
Thursday, February 27: Winners announced at Pub
Welcome We are the "Helping Wharton Work Together" slate and we hope you use this site to learn more about our goals for the upcoming year and give us feedback. Thank you for visiting our site and please bookmark us as we will continue to update.
International Campaign for bursaries for international students. With fewer work permits for non-US students available, Wharton risks its international diversity if the school cannot offer more grants to students from other countries.
Expand upon WGA sponsored cultural events: To emphasize literature (e.g. book club), art, music, politics, and global events (e.g. Diwali, Mexican Independence Day, Chinese New Year, Burns night).
Alumni Create regional coordinator positions to facilitate communications between regional and international alumni offices and student body.
Strengthen alumni link to career-focused clubs to help alumni and students with career searches.
Establish a database providing resources and advice on working abroad.
Campaign for Alumni Fellows to assist the alumni office in improving alumni contacts.
Careers Create a set of student-run job skills workshops for students: working out a career path, creating a resume, networking, interviewing skills.
Connect executive recruiters with groups of students underserved by traditional campus recruiting efforts.
WGA Establish a committee to explore ways of reducing school ‘nickel-and-diming’ process.
Create coffee-sessions with administration and office-staff: create an interaction zone for faculty and students to interact.
Weekly WGA open-house and drop-box: Express your concerns to WGA members in MBA café.
Cohorts Introduce cohort homerooms: students have most classes in one room; professors move!
Establish cohort WGA liaison reps: responsible for coordinating cohort activities, representing cohort to WGA, encouraging/supporting reps, representing cohort to school at large, dealing with intra-cohort conflicts – making the cohort work better.
Establish a cohort prize for most active cohort (parties, sport, community, decorations in homeroom, club presidents).
Communication Increase communication with DGSAC to identify and prioritize key concerns.
List weekly Cohort and other events in the Wharton Journal - in school and across Penn.
Encourage listing of all meetings of all clubs on MySpike, and send out weekly list of activities similar to GAPSA mailing.
Saturday, February 15, 2003
This site will discuss the topics we want our slate to focus on, allow the Wharton student body to ask us questions directly, and show an example of possible communication methods available to link our communities.
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