New Procedures, Frequently Asked Questions and Who to Contact

Folks please read carefully.

With now 1200 MBA students and growing, we have to make some procedural changes. Please welcome to LSUS and the MBA program A’Issa Fowler. While I can use her for only 33% of her time, she is a great addition to our team.

1. The link below has all current documents for Orientation and Curriculum Planning, Courses in the Four Emphases, Course Offerings, etc. you need. Starting two sessions ago, students received this link with their Admissions email, but it is up constantly for all of your benefit in case you misplace your documents. All documents here will be current:

http://www.lsus.edu/MBAProgramCurriculumOrientation

2. Recall I work best through email. My voice mail greeting asks that you not leave a voice mail. Why? Sometimes on Monday mornings I would have twenty voice mails from the weekend. Some students forget to leave a number, or one or two digits are garbled, probably a cell phone issue, and the others I would call I would get their voicemail and we would play phone tag.

3. You will email A’Issa at a’[email protected] for all normal questions. NOTE: ALL QUESTIONS REGARDING A PARTICULAR CLASS SHOULD GO TO THAT PROFESSOR AND NOT TO THE MBA OFFICE. The following are examples of normal correspondence but is not limited to just these:

 Questions about classes being offered for the upcoming session(s). (These are in a Word document at the link above as well)  Change of Emphasis request  How to appeal if a student’s grades fall and they are put on probation or expelled  You get an error code saying you “Need Advisement” (this is a bogus error that comes out of nowhere)  Where to find books for your classes before a session begins (Go to myLSUS and in the Open Access section search for the course number. The information is at the hour glass icon for each course)  Who to contact for graduation regalia. (The bookstore at 318-797-5212 or email at [email protected] (Note there are graduation ceremonies only in May and December. If you want to “walk” and you graduate in a different session, you will need to wait until the closest ceremony)

1  Problems with Moodle before classes start (like your paid-for course not showing up in Moodle)  Any questions if you are current or former military for VA, GI Bill benefit, your commander needing to see your courses to be completed, etc.  You were purged from previously enrolled classes for an upcoming session FOR FINANCIAL AID REASONS ONLY. Recall we cannot process any other late requests. An Important Dates document is always in the Link above and I remind the class at least twice before the start of any session  A’Issa will brief me on that day’s email correspondence and I will handle exceptions and things she cannot handle

4. Email me at [email protected] for these questions and issues:

 Declare you will graduate that upcoming session. Please include your student number and if you transferred in up to two courses from a prior AACSB accredited MBA program and what the courses were and which of ours they transferred in for  Request to transfer up to two courses from a prior AACSB accredited MBA program  Request to be waived from BADM 700 and/or BADM 701 if you do not have an undergraduate degree in business but nonetheless have taken undergraduate Accounting and Finance (BADM 700) and Economics and Statistics (BADM 701)  Specific complaints  Career advisory questions

5. Days to Email Either A’Issa or me:

On some days I can get up to 130 emails. In an effort to even out normal email correspondence we will implement a new email format. If your last name begins with one of the assigned letters in each group, email me or A’Issa on your assigned day. If there is a true emergency, you can always email us on any day. And of course when I teach MADM 760 those students can email me any day.

Monday (Letters A – E) Tuesday (Letters F – J) Wednesday (Letters K – O) Thursday (Letters P – T) Friday (Letters U – Z)

Please do not email me Saturday or Sunday except for emergencies or if you are one of my students in MADM 760 when that is taught. The weekends are the only time I can do

2 my research and publications. If you email us with normal correspondence on the weekend, it bottlenecks the start on Monday.

Thanks for helping with the procedures changes. Hopefully these will even out workflows and allow all to be served in a timely manner. And I can spend more quality time in my replies to you.

Very best regards,

Bill and A’Issa