MAY
2018

Google Recruits SEBA Students on Campus
On April 26, the Google Finance and Accounting Associate Program came to recruit SEBA finance and accounting students.  This was the first time that Google came to Saint Mary's for an on-campus recruiting event.

SEBA Heightens Efforts for Diversity and Inclusion
Inclusion word cloud concept on black background.
From 2010 to 2018, women faculty increased from 31% to 51% among SEBA full-time faculty and international faculty from 31% to 53%. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education ranked Saint Mary's business programs among the top 50 in the nation for graduating the most diverse students in finance and business."

SEBA Scholarship Initiative Raises $520,000 for Undergraduate Students
Dean Zhan Li and the Dean's Advisory Board launched the SEBA scholarship initiative last year to address the affordability and
student debt issues facing both higher education institutions and students as well as to support the goals of the current Saint Mary's College strategic plan. 
 
SEBA Ranks Among Top Colleges for Online MBA Programs in 2018
SEBA's Hybrid EMBA program ranked among the top 25 online EMBA programs on Online MBA Today, and #2 for Best Online MBA Programs in California on College Choice.  
 
SEBA 2018 Business Idea Competition Draws Crowd
The "friendlier" Shark Tank, SEBA's 7th annual Business Idea
Competition sponsored by City National Bank, drew a crowd of almost 100 visitors, including SEBA students, faculty, and staff, to the Soda Center on May 3, 2018.
 
Masters in Accounting Graduate Lands Audit Associate Role at Deloitte 
After networking at the Meet the Firms on-campus event this past year, Smriti Hyoju, Masters in Accounting '17, from Nepal, is on track to a permanent position at Deloitte as an audit associate. 

FACULTY RESEARCH & ACHIEVEMENTS

Professor Jyoti Bachani attended the Women in Leadership Conference on the final day of De La Salle Week on Campus with 65 women. She facilitated a session on Art 7 Expression as part of the conference. 

Professor Jack Rasmus has had a peer-reviewed article accepted in the next issue of World Review of Political Economy published in Beijing entitled "The Deja Vu US-China Trade War."  He has also had a peer-reviewed chapter on the 10th anniversary of the 2008 global crisis accepted for a forthcoming collection being published by the International Critical Thought Journal, entitled "The Evolution of Neoliberal Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump."

UPCOMING EVENTS
 
SEBA IN PICTURES

Professor Speaks at Lasallian Research Symposium
Invited by Office of Mission's Vice President of Mission, Carole Swain, during De La Salle Week, Professor Saroja Subrahmanyan spoke during the panel. 

Bay Area Young Professionals Mixer
A group of 40 people showed up for an event put on by The Hive at the Academy of Sciences.  

SEBA Hosts Peking University of China Visit 
A group of EMBA students from Peking
University of China (BIMBA) traveled here for a U.S. Business Immersion.