Fox School of Business at Temple University

So, I have daily contact with the lovely Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Debbie Campbell. She happens to be my wonderful, kind boss. From experience I know that she is totally approachable and interested in helping students. Since I got to know Debbie, I never actually gave the rest of the Fox administration much thought, until last week that is. Last week I got to meet the Super Dean Himself, Moshe M. Porat. I actually had lunch with him. As in, we shared a table and ate the same type of sandwich. Now, I'm not trying to say it was the same as meeting Patrick Dempsey, but it was really cool. He talked about his visions for Fox and Alter Hall. Fox is all about a quality-over-quantity education, so programs for mandatory internships and participation in the Investment Fund program are not going to be on the agenda anytime soon. When a school requires an internship, the value of the experience is undermined in order to supply the entire undergraduate class with experience. Dean Porat wants all of our professional experiences to be significant, not fluff. The same idea can be applied to involvement in the Investment Fund. While I think the program is really cool and I am pretty excited to see what the Alter Hall Trading Floor is like; I'm not a finance major and I would not be excited if I had a huge mandatory project on top of all of my other work. The dean also talked about how he hopes to add more faculty in coming years. Overall, the day was a lot of fun AND very informative.