A Student Letter to UIW
04/20/2023As Jaclyn Moreno, Business Administration, ’23 prepares to graduate, she takes time to reflect on her first four years at the University she has come to call home.
As Jaclyn Moreno, Business Administration, ’23 prepares to graduate, she takes time to reflect on her first four years at the University she has come to call home.
Wonder what it takes to open a business? UIW alumnus Josh Rangel, ’13, founder, president and CEO of Rangel Renewables, will share his secrets for setting goals, creating a business plan of action, and setting a company up for success during a presentation at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in the Mabee Library’s Watson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
In early March, the UIW Collegiate Entrepreneurs´ Organization (CEO) Club, in collaboration with the H-E-B School of Business and Administration and the Beckendorf Center for Innovation and Global Entrepreneurship, hosted two H-E-B executives who shared information on the upcoming H-E-B Quest for Texas Best competition. Global Sourcing Export Manager Antonio Villarreal and Sourcing Manager Rovey Gutierrez met with a select group of students to talk about the decade-old competition.
Night classes are not uncommon for students in college, but the night class UIW Business student Ekaterina Lebedina recently took looked different from most other courses. The course, Search Funding Competition: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, was an inter-university class with students and professors from UIW, Trinity University and St. Mary’s University.
Shantel Wilkins, '98 recently spoke with a class of UIW Business students about preparing for their careers. She shared challenges she faced growing up with a single mother and how those helped her develop resiliency that she still displays to this day.
The H-E-B School of Business and Administration (HEBSBA) at the University of the Incarnate Word is pleased to, once again, offer the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program or VITA. The program provides free tax preparation services from IRS certified volunteers to households with incomes of $60,000 or less and helps working families take full advantage of all of the tax credits that they are eligible for. That includes the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and education credits.
The national website OnlineMastersDegrees.org has ranked UIW No. 1 in the State of Texas in the site’s annual best of list for online Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs. The site also ranked the UIW online MBA program No. 15 in the nation.