Carey Hall to become home for business students
Business majors now have a residential college they can call home — Carey Hall.
The College of Business Administration and Residence Life partnered to establish CMU’s third residential college. Carey Hall will become home to business majors of any concentration, beginning in the fall of 2003.
The Office of Residence Life will have applications available this week.
“We are excited to partner with Residence Life to establish a new residential college that will make a big contribution,” said Karen Williamson, College of Business Administration academic adviser.
Williamson said the residential college will target freshmen, and she recommends it to first-time students.
“By living here, students will be able to make more significant connections with faculty, be able to better form study groups with other students, and their transition from high school will be much easier,” she said.
Williamson helped develop the college along with business information systems Instructor J.D. Mackin, the director for the college. A former owner of 95.3 WCFX-FM, as well as many other radio stations, Mackin said he is excited about his upcoming position.
“I was delighted when (the College of Business Administration) asked me to be director,” Mackin said. “ I feel that I bring 30 years of business experience, as well as an academic background to the table, and I’m looking forward to developing this college and eventually ... building a four-year program.”
To be eligible for the college, students must have and maintain a 3.0 grade-point average or higher, sign a behavior agreement, enroll in core business courses, participate in co-curricular activities set up by the college and become involved in an Registered Student Organization.
Among the advantages of living in Carey include full use of the new Towers residence halls, which will offer fully mediated meeting rooms and on-site classrooms that offer core business classes, Williamson said.
Carey is a co-ed residence hall with four or five person suites that have private baths. Business students will live together on two floors.
“Developing residential colleges is something that universities are doing nationwide and it is becoming a critical target,” Williamson said,
He said having two other residential colleges on campus made it easier to pave the way for the third. The other residential colleges include the College of Science and Technology in Woldt Residence Hall and the College of Health Professions in Emmons Hall.
“The CBA has considered a residential college in the past, and the timing was just right this year,” she said.
