GSB | Chicago: Letter to Alumni By Danielle Palmer, ’92-Director of Alumni Relations

A NEW LOOK, NEW SERVICES

I WRITE THIS amid the din of jackhammers and high-speed drills. This summer the school launched an intensive renovation of the Hyde Park campus. Everything is scheduled to be shipshape when students return in September. When you next visit campus, you will find an huge improvement in the esthetic and functional quality of the facilities.

Edelstone traded that nouveau-prison decor for an open and gracious lobby and reception area and improved recruiting facilities. Stuart classrooms were gutted and will be as up to date as those at Gleacher Center downtown. The Rosenwald lobby gained new seating and an information center, so as to finally do justice to the lovely exterior. What a difference! If you have considered taking those classes you couldn’t take as students (at the special tuition rate now available to alumni), this is a great time to be on campus. Do drop in and see our makeover.

CAREER MANAGEMENT
The Office of Alumni Relations has implemented an exciting and innovative partnership with the Part-time M.B.A. Program. Using resources and personnel from both area areas, we are creating a career management center at the Gleacher Center headed up by Bob Wilcox, director of alumni career management. This partnership will allow both programs to provide a greater level of service. As part of this initiative, we are pleased to welcome Angela Raines from Montgomery, Alabama. She will join Bob at Gleacher as assistant director of alumni career services. Bob looks forward to putting her formidable research and writing skills to good use.

Last year’s job market was exceptionally hot, and far fewer alumni found themselves without jobs. Even in a good job market, assistance during the search and salary negotiation process is welcome, and some of us live in parts of the world where corporate downsizing is just taking hold. Most M.B.A.’s, moreover, have a continued interest in career networking, development, and growth. Therefore, the Office of Alumni Relations continues to direct more of its resources into alumni career management. I feel strongly that career-related services are some of the most important that a business school can offer its alumni. If you have a different point of view or would like to provide input on other services we should be offering, please feel free to contact me by phone, mail, or e-mail.

The Office of Alumni Relations welcomes your ideas, questions, and comments. Write us at 6030 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637; call us at (773) 702-7727; fax us at (773) 702-3730; or e-mail danielle.palmer@gsb.uchicago.edu.

By Danielle Palmer, ’92
Director of Alumni Relations

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		A NEW LOOK, NEW SERVICES I WRITE THIS amid the din of jackhammers and high-speed drills. This summer the school launched an intensive renovation of the Hyde Park campus. Everything is scheduled to be shipshape when students return in September. When you next visit campus, you will find an huge improvement in the esthetic and functional quality of the facilities. Edelstone traded that nouveau-prison decor for an open and gracious lobby and reception area and improved recruiting facilities. Stuart classrooms were gutted and will be as up to date as those at Gleacher Center downtown. The Rosenwald lobby gained new seating and an information center, so as to finally do justice to the lovely exterior. What a difference! If you have considered taking those classes you couldn’t take as students (at the special tuition rate now available to alumni), this is a great time to be on campus. Do drop in and see our makeover. CAREER MANAGEMENT The Office of Alumni Relations has implemented an exciting and innovative partnership with the Part-time M.B.A. Program. Using resources and personnel from both area areas, we are creating a career management center at the Gleacher Center headed up by Bob Wilcox, director of alumni career management. This partnership will allow both programs to provide a greater level of service. As part of this initiative, we are pleased to welcome Angela Raines from Montgomery, Alabama. She will join Bob at Gleacher as assistant director of alumni career services. Bob looks forward to putting her formidable research and writing skills to good use. Last year’s job market was exceptionally hot, and far fewer alumni found themselves without jobs. Even in a good job market, assistance during the search and salary negotiation process is welcome, and some of us live in parts of the world where corporate downsizing is just taking hold. Most M.B.A.’s, moreover, have a continued interest in career networking, development, and growth. Therefore, the Office of Alumni Relations continues to direct more of its resources into alumni career management. I feel strongly that career-related services are some of the most important that a business school can offer its alumni. If you have a different point of view or would like to provide input on other services we should be offering, please feel free to contact me by phone, mail, or e-mail. The Office of Alumni Relations welcomes your ideas, questions, and comments. Write us at 6030 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637; call us at (773) 702-7727; fax us at (773) 702-3730; or e-mail danielle.palmer@gsb.uchicago.edu.

	By Danielle Palmer, ’92 Director of Alumni Relations
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