Academic Advising
You will be assigned an academic advisor upon entrance to the business school. Your academic advisor will assure that you are making satisfactory progress toward your BBA degree and that your course selection is appropriate for your educational and professional goals. You will meet with your advisor each semester to arrange coursework. A crucial component of the advising process is to assist you in taking advantage of the many resources and opportunities available through the business school.
Pre-BBA students should contact Jessica Lowy (Jessica_Lowy@bus.emory.edu) for advisement. Drop-in hours for Spring 2012 will be held on Mondays from 2-4 p.m., Thursdays 1-3 p.m. and Fridays 11:30am - 1:30 p.m. Please check the pre-BBA conference for updates.
BBA Program Academic Advisors
Andrea Hershatter, Associate Dean & Program Director, BBA Program
Andrea_Hershatter@bus.emory.edu
Andrea has served in a number of capacities at the graduate and undergraduate level during her twenty years at the Goizueta Business School and has been delighted to play a role in its emergence as one of the foremost business schools in the world. In her capacity as Associate Dean and Director of the BBA Program, she is responsible for setting the strategic direction and overseeing the execution of all aspects of the undergraduate business experience. Andrea is a faculty member in Organization and Management and teaches Entrepreneurship, as well as a Senior Seminar on the entertainment industry. She is the coauthor of Business at the Speed of Molasses: How Patience produces Profits, currently in press through Random House. Additionally, she serves on the advisory board of several companies and is a frequent presenter on the topics of entrepreneurship and generational attitudes and perceptions. Andrea earned a B.S. in Management from Tulane University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in advanced standing in Emory’s Institute of Liberal Arts and is the recipient of the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award and the Don Keough Award for Excellence.
Libby Egnor, Assistant Dean
Libby_Egnor@bus.emory.edu
Libby attended the University of Michigan, where she earned a B.A. in Political Science. She then moved to Albany, New York, where she worked for the New York State Assembly as a policy analyst for six years. She entered academia when she began working for NYU in a faculty development program. She joined Goizueta Business School in 2000 as the assistant director for the International Program Office. In 2005 she became the Director of Admissions for the BBA Program. In 2007 Libby spearheaded the launch of the Goizueta Scholars Program, along with overseeing the development and programming for the Goizueta Pathways Program. She is the 2008 recipient of the Donald Keough Award for Excellence, and teaches a Senior Seminar on Women in Business.
Robin Dunn, Associate Director, BBA Student Life and Engagement
Robin_Dunn@bus.emory.edu
Robin joined the BBA Program Office in August 2011. She holds a B.A. in
Communications from Baylor University and a M.A. in Teaching from Belmont
University. Her career in higher education includes positions in alumni
relations and development at Vanderbilt University, Northwestern
University and University of Chicago. In previous roles, she has worked
with students and alumni from around the world to develop programs that
create meaningful engagement opportunities based on special interests,
affinities and locations. She is excited to be joining the BBA Program
Office to help prepare, develop and equip students to realize their
fullest potential.
Jessica Lowy, Assistant Director, BBA/Pre-BBA Student Advising and Programming
Jessica_Lowy@bus.emory.edu
Jessica earned a B.A. in psychology with a minor in economics from Vassar College, and a Master of Public Health from the University of South Florida. After completing a fellowship at the CDC in 2003, Jessica served as the Manager of Graduate Training Programs for the Association of Schools of Public Health from 2003-2005, placing students in internships and fellowships throughout the CDC. This role introduced Jessica to the joys of working with students as they strive to pursue their educational and professional goals. She joined Emory in 2005, serving as a Career Counselor at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, where she advised students and alumni on the job search process and collaborated with employers to create meaningful internship and employment opportunities for graduates. Jessica is thrilled to have joined the BBA Program in October 2010 as an Advisor to BBA and pre-BBA students and looks forward to contributing to advisement, admissions and programming efforts.
Andy Rabitoy, Director, BBA Career Management Center
Andy_Rabitoy@bus.emory.edu
Andy serves as the Director of the BBA Career Management Center (CMC). He joined the Goizueta team after six years in career services with the University of California, San Diego. Prior to Andy’s transition into higher education, he worked in the corporate world as a technical recruiting manager. His background in both higher education and the corporate world is helpful to students transitioning from backpacks to briefcases. Andy is a Western Washington University alumnus with a B.A in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and M.A. in Career Counseling from the University of San Diego. He is delighted to join the Goizueta Business School and look forward to advising students through many defining moments at Goizueta.
Anne Kocurek, Associate Director, BBA Career Management Center
Anne_Kocurek@bus.emory.edu
Anne graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, with a degree in Opera Performance. She studied abroad in London and helped start a new sorority her Senior year. She worked her way into the world of Advertising and played there for 12 years working with many Fortune 100 companies leading Account Services on traditional and new media projects for clients from boutique creative shops . Along the way she earned her Master's degree in Leadership Development at Augsburg College, began a business in Executive Leadership Coaching, and taught classes in Communications at several local colleges. Anne joined Emory in 2005 to create a Leader Development Program for Evening MBA students and was lucky to plan travel to China, Argentina, Brazil, Dubai, and Egypt with the students to visit companies. She has taught the Senior Seminar Guerilla Marketing since 2006. She is so happy to work in the BBA CMC to help you discover what your career path can look like and to advise you on your academic courses at Emory.
Valerie Molyneaux, Director, International Programs
Valerie_Molyneaux@bus.emory.edu
Valerie just joined the BBA Program Office in January 2008, focusing on International Programs. She worked at Emory, however, for five years prior to that, in both Student Conduct and Residence Life and Housing. Valerie have managed to be a student for much of my life, most recently earning my doctorate from the University of Georgia (go Bulldogs!). Her dissertation was about college students' preparation for the work world. She studied English and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University (go Spartans!) and received her master's degree in college administration from Kent State (go Golden Flashes!). The two things Valerie loves best about working with students are watching them discover their interests and helping them formulate concrete plans to achieve their goals.
Celeta Vanderpool, Senior Associate Director, BBA Program
Celeta_Vanderpool@bus.emory.edu
Celeta was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, a small island country (166 square miles) in the West Indies, known for its white sand beaches and coral reefs. She migrated to New York in 1997 to pursue her educational goals, and did so by earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, with a minor in philosophy from The City University of New York and a Master of Arts degree in Psychology and Education from Columbia University. For the last seven years Celeta’s passion has been her profession. She has been a full time lecturer in Psychology and has been involved extensively with program development for the City University of New York and St.Johns University. Celeta relocated to Georgia in January of 2008, and is very excited about performing her role as Senior Associate Director (Student Life and Leadership) of the BBA Program. She believes, as Joseph Campbell did, that the job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. She looks forward to taking this journey with you as you are stimulated intellectually, personally and professionally at the Goizueta Business School.