2021 Online Impact Campaign
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all facets of life, few more dramatically than higher education. At the SIUE School of Business, we pivoted to 100% online education last March in a two-week time period. While our experience in offering online graduate business courses made this transition easier, such a rapid shift created barriers in offering some of the extras that help us to deliver the educational experiences which sets business education at SIUE apart. To remedy this we need to create a robust offering of online support tools for our students that help prepare our students to succeed in the job market. We believe these platforms are needed if we are to keep the School of Business at the forefront of business education. However, all of these systems come with a significant price tag. Given a less-than-optimistic budget outlook for the state and for the university, we need your help to fund these initiatives.
Description of Programs
Peer to Peer Tutoring
A virtual tutoring application that will allow some of our high-performing, upper-division business students to tutor their peers in some of our more challenging courses; at the same time, it will help these student tutors earn money at a time when on- or off-campus work opportunities are limited.
Presentation Skills Feedback
An AI-based system that assists students to improve their oral presentation skills by comparing the user’s delivery (pace, diction, …) against a database of thousands of different types of presentations (persuasive, informative, etc.) and then providing them with
feedback on areas of improvement.
Virtual Career Events
A virtual system that will enable us to bring together our business students and employers by hosting virtual career/internship fairs; students and employers will pre-record brief elevator pitches and then provide them with the opportunity to chat, either by text or virtually, during the time of the fair.
Financial Goal
Our goal is to raise $80,000 in the next six months to invest in these dynamic programs.
Please consider supporting our Online Impact Campaign with a gift today.
For more information:
Sara Colvin, Senior Director of Development
scolvin@siue.edu
618-650‑2317
