College of Design Student & Alumni Board Meeting Minutes: September 27, 2011

Attendees: Meg Parsons, Mai Xiong, Ada Ojiaku, Cindy Zerger, Laura Anderson, Coleman Iverson, Conor Murphy, Stephanie Karp, Maureen Kostial, Gabby Goetz, Allison Quinnell, Jen Voth, Heather Winkler, Stephanie Reem, Sophia Politis, Kelly Martinez, Marisa Fredrickson, Raymond Dehn, Rich Higgins, Charlie Young, Lucy Reile, Lori Mollberg, Kate Maple, Trevor Miller, Chris Kastead. Welcome: -Ice breaker and introductions Meeting guest: Chris Kastead from MSA Spoke about the advocacy portion of the MN Student Association which helps students become trained in speaking to people at the state capitol on behalf of the University. He stressed the message: “We need people” in an effort to get more students involved. An application will be passed along to the group. General Goals from Mai and Ada, presidents: -We want to see some new ideas, more events different from what we do now. -Be open, share your opinions. Don’t be afraid to collaborate and keep in touch in between meetings. -One interdisciplinary event, collective for the year. Meeting guest: Trevor Miller Trevor is the Director of External Relations, College of Design. He first started discussing the goals for the college which include innovation and communication for our constituents. Other topics included:

• The college will, hopefully, have a brand new website by the end of October. • Trying to figure out different ways to raise resources for the college. Think outside of the box.

He stressed that raising small dollar contributions is key. As an example, he described the project where apparel students created dresses and shorts for boys and girls at an orphanage in Haiti. Alumni who have never contributed money in the last 5 years were informed of the Haiti project and have been asked to help pay for various materials. Modest goal were exceeded.

• During Inauguration week for the new president, President Kaler went on a campus crawl. Eight hours over two days. President Kaler stopped by each college. He went to Rapson (for CDes). Things he experienced included: the largest virtual reality installation where 3-D images can be experienced , brand new Digital FabLab which include 3-D printers and machines that make something out of nothing, Chomper (a fury toy chest that talks and came out of the toy design class) and the Solar Decathlon house, which led to a discussion on CDes’ work with Haiti (architecture) and Habitat for Humanity.

• Trevor will send out weekly emails of updates to the board. Budget & Grants Update (Kate and Lucy): The process for acquiring student fees is changing. We will not have to submit separate college budgets to the Council of College Boards for next year, but rather we will receive money from student fees from our own students. This system will work better and hopefully create less confusion. Since the student

College of Design Student & Alumni Board Meeting Minutes: September 27, 2011

fees money will go directly to our college, we will be able to help student organizations if they want to collaborate on a project whereas in the past that wasn’t an option. For this fall, we will receive approximately $2300 from our fees request we submitted last year and about the same in spring. Mai submitted a grant request for $1000 to Student Unions and Activities to receive money for our board from the Coca-Cola grants. College News, Events and Updates: Students are asked to stay updated on CDes affiliated Student organizations for their major so that we don’t plan events on the same day or duplicate events. Kate is on Twitter! She tweets interesting things students are doing on campus, follow her @KateMaple. Lori mentioned two events this week: Pocket Neighborhoods book and a book signing in Rapson on Wednesday September 28th and a Landscape Architect who specializes in water on Thursday, September 29th. Upcoming Events:

• Annual housing gathering, Wednesday, October 5th • Rendevous at the U, very international this year, 4 exhibitions, digital fabrication lab will be

open • Retail Connect , Thursday, October 27th. Keynote is speaker is from Digital River and will discuss

social media in business. • UMAA Awards dinner is, October 20th. Please RSVP from to Lori if you want to attend. Two

awards for the college: Design in 7, Program Extroridinaire and Tom Meyer, Volunteer of the year

• Senior Fashion show in February • Interior Design “The State of the Interior Design Profession” book, panel discussion Tuesday,

November 16th downtown Minneapolis at the central library. • Ink and drink, Friday, November 18th. A type and letterpress event with demonstrations,

cashbar, playtime in the studio. • Dirty Laundry, date secured, Thursday December 1st, Twin Six and Alchemy Architects will have

presenters speaking. Hosting at the Weisman Art Museum. Mentor Program and Fall Activities Update: The CDes Mentor Program application deadline for students has passed. We received 230 student applications. We are still looking for additional mentors. Architecture, Graphic Design, Landscape ARchitecrure and Retail Merchandising all need MANY more mentors! Alumni, please let friends and colleagues know.

College of Design Student & Alumni Board Meeting Minutes: September 27, 2011

This fall, all freshmen entering the U of M took the StrengthQuest assessment. The assessment helps one identify unique talents and skills. Discipline Team Meeting Breakout: 15 minutes to discuss Apparel: Chair- Allison Quinnell Ideas: portfolio review/help in spring and fall, documentary screening, make bad art, speed networking with 6-7 professionals, tour. Architecture: Chair- Mark Partridge Ideas: Participating in dirty laundry; Jeff Werner from Alchemy Architects, building tours (new UHG building) Spring—portfolio networking event (Lucy- share faculty opinions with group) Graphic: Chair- Rich Higgins Ideas: Studio tour/mini dirty laundries, want to do at least two events. They liked the idea of Bad Art and it could be an interdisciplinary event. Housing: Chair- Charlie Young Ideas: Housing Gathering for fall semester. For spring, do a panel that addresses foreclosure and affordable housing, setting up informational interviews, speed networking sounds like a fun option. Interior Design: Chair- Heather Winkler Ideas: tours of projects and/or tours, project would be a new idea that hasn’t been done much before, hospital tour goes along with senior project, construction phase to see, interview 101 where students learn how to prepare for an interview—professionals tell students how they should dress, talk, etc. Fall revit training session, there’s a person at BWBR who could facilitate and students could go to the firm. Retail: Chair –Sophia Politis (Ada will fill in when necessary) Ideas: On site tour(s) of one of the following… Cliché, Covered, Locomotion, Bumbershoot, Drama Downtown, uptown, 50th and France, a few places all in the same area. Landscape Arch: Chair- Cindy Zerger Ideas: developing your own brand identity, interactive/online examples, to have good take away points, spring – ASLA MN portfolio review, develop ahead of the portfolio review so they can actually work and get good feedback, in Rapson, get lots of people involved. BY FRIDAY: Email Lucy something about what your group is going to do New/Old Business Confirmed conference call schedule

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A thank you to those who submitted feedback 18 projects graphic design students created for the U of M Foundation, one will be chosen and used. Websites for collaboratively getting feedback: Beehands.net for, Cargocollective , Wiggio Alpha Rho Chi fraternity starting up again and will be looking for student members to get going again. Meeting adjourned: 7:05pm.

College of Design Student & Alumni Board Meeting Minutes: November 29, 2011

Attendees: Meg Parsons, Mai Xiong, Ada Ojiaku, Laura Anderson, Coleman Iverson, Connor Murphy, Stephanie Karp, Maureen Kostial, Sophia Politis, Brittany Walker, Kelly Martinez, Marisa Fredrickson, Raymond Dehn, Marc Partridge, Rich Higgins, Beth Bowman, Matt Wilkens, Prescott Morrill, Lucy Reile, Lori Mollberg, Kate Maple. Welcome and Introductions Guest Tom Fisher, Dean of the College of Design

• The University is looking at new methods for reaching out to alumni and donors, including participation in cyber Monday and a Haiti clothing drive involving CDes apparel students.

• Student Highlights (To stay up to date with these, please refer to Trevor Miller’s emails.) Institute on the environment had symposium and Landscape Architecture students swept all three competitions. Graphic Design students were selected to design the fall fundraising materials for the U of M Foundation. Apparel Design students won hospital gown competition for Park Nicollet and Park Nicollet will actually be putting the redesigned gowns into production. Students designed and built a Habitat for Humanity net zero and sustainable house in Princeton, MN. Interior Design students are working on partnerships with healthcare facilities here in Minnesota.

College of Design Updates o Rapson has a new DigiFab Lab, it’s brand new and the best in a college like ours. o Virtual Reality Lab for the Rapson courtyard is soon to come. It will be the largest Virtual

Reality Lab outside of Hollywood and the first wireless system, ever! o There is discussion about moving the McNeal half of CDes over to the East Bank to help

unify the college. Potential location could be the Armory. o Innovation Zone on the East Bank in the works to utilize the Virtual Reality Lab. Leading

to partnerships with corporate communities-- wide strides for future and faster benefits.

o UMN was given an A+ ranking for being a sustainable campus. Next steps are to work on becoming a net zero campus.

• Four areas Tom sees the college focusing on in the future: 1. Public Interest Design— Working with the second phase of disaster responses 2. Geo-Design— Using geographical information as a basis for making design choices. 3. Experience Design—Virtual Reality Lab use could be integrated with Carlson School of

Management and College of Design students to aide and assist in research regarding human response to different stimuli.

4. Service Design—Most design disciplines are about designing tangible things, but we are moving into the design of systems, procedures, protocols, organizations, government, K-12/education, etc.

Guest Phil Esten, CEO University of Minnesota Alumni Association : Presentation of UMAA Strategic Plan (Please see presentation outline and handouts attached to agenda)

• Phil has been the CEO of UMAA for about 2 years now. • The NAPPA group was hired by UMAA for their strategic planning process. • Major area to focus on is making the student experience as best as possible to ensure positive

interactions as alumni.

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Guest Janice Linster, CDes National Board Representative to UMAA: Updates from UMAA National Board Rep

• Janice is on the Engagement Committee for UMAA. She will work with Lori Mollberg to visit our meeting again.

Mentor Program and Fall Activities Update (Lucy) • The Mentor Program kicked off on November 2nd. For most matches, this was their first face to

face meeting. • Mentors and mentees were given an opportunity to receive a complimentary code to take the

StrengthQuest assessment. On February 2, 2012, Gallup will be coming in to host a workshop and conversation about StrengthQuest, etc. Networking will follow.

• Right now the above event is invite only to participants of the mentor program, however if space permits, the event will be opened up to others.

• Fall events thus far: Annual Housing Gathering, Retail Tour: 50th & France, Revit Workshop, Retail Connect, Apparel Movie Night (Schmatta trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGfp7ZZ92sc)

• Upcoming Fall events: Dirty Laundry, December 1st with Kelly Martinez and Mark Partridge as hosts and Graphic Design Studio tour to Target and Sussner Design on December 9th

Discipline Team Meeting Breakout: 15 minutes to discuss Ideas for spring 2012:

• Housing Planning something in March based on the different specializations in the housing program; potentially a panel. 2nd idea: a follow up on Professor Krump’s discussion on foreclosure. Design in 7 speaker: Beth will gather some names

• Architecture Portfolio and Networking event in March. Idea for an International collaboration where university students partidipate in a charrette to complete a project and then it is handed off to another studio (China, Australia, etc); would like to get the help of faculty and instructors. Design in 7: Steve Dwyer BWBR

• Apparel Portfolio event that could involve a speed networking format Design in 7: Julie Allinson (owns EyeBobs )

• Retail A panel involving professionals who could discuss trend. Could be interdisciplinary. Design in 7: Katherine Holthread (owner of Bumbershute)

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• Interior Another Revit workshop. Portfolio and resume critique. Facility tours, not so much firms, but projects being worked on/finished. Maybe something international. (Occurring after April due to CIDA) Design in 7: Rachelle Schoessler Lynn, AJ Paron-Wildes

• Graphic Tips & Tutorials for how to apply knowledge and skills, process design and packaging workshop, typography event, packaging by country(international aspects) Design in 7: Tom DuPont (owns Kazoo branding and contact of Laura’s)

• Landscape Launching a series, “The Whole Package”, how to brand, identity package (i.e.: business cards, portfolio, resume) (2nd or 3rd week of January) Design in 7: Shane Coen, Lee Emkees, and many more to be emailed to Lucy

Meeting adjourned: 7:05pm.

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College of Design Student & Alumni Board Meeting Minutes: January 31, 2012

Attendees: Mai Xiong, Ada Ojiaku, Matthew Kessler, Meg Parsons, Kelly Martinez, Charles Young, Gabby Goetz, Jennifer Voth, Allison Quinell, Brittany Walker, Stephanie Reem, Heather Winkler, Matt Wilkens, Prescott Morrill, Laura Anderson, Connor Murphy, Coleman Iverson, Beth Bowman, Kate Maple, Lori Swenson, Lori Mollberg, Lucy Reile Welcome, Meeting Goals & Introductions Spring Ambassador Activities with Student Services –Lori Swenson, CDes Student Services

• The Dean’s Reception for admitted students & parents is on February 25 in McNeal or Rapson depending on major.

o Kate and Lori are soliciting more help for the Dean’s Reception and still need one alumnus from each of the following disciplines: interior design, landscape architecture, and graphic design. The time commitment for alumni volunteers is 12:45-2:45pm for Interior, Graphic, Housing, Retail Merchandising and Apparel and 2:15-3:30 for Architecture and Landscape.

o The Dean’s Reception will include major sessions, facility and residence tours, etc.

o The purpose is making sure, prospective students know what the major they have been accepted to is actually about. Hearing from alumni and current students is crucial and very helpful for prospective students.

o The students coming for these events are still deciding on schools, so this event should help them determine if the U is the right place for them.

• Welcome phone calls to prospective students using online tool to call from home –February

o This helps boost the number of students in certain disciplines and/or number of honor students attending CDes in the upcoming year

o Application numbers are down for Fall 2012 and lately students are gravitating towards “conventional majors” (i.e.: business, science, etc)

• Lori Swenson will contact you if you’ve signed up for any volunteering, but contact either Lori Swenson or Lori Mollberg with any questions you might have.

• Details / how to prepare for your role / Q&A / sign up (list as of Tuesday AM attached) • *corrected date* Commencement – May 12, 3 PM, Mariucci Arena

College & UMAA News • Legislative Briefing, February 1, 6:00-7:30 PM, McNamara Alumni Center,

supporttheu.umn.edu o Pertaining primarily to the University’s capital request and how students and

staff can support o Sign up to receive updates and options to contact your legislators.

• Design Intersections –Tweak? Leap? What does design thinking demand? March 29 – featuring KaosPilots, Knowmads, 4FRONT, 3M Auditorium, CSOM

• twelve: 44th Annual Fashion Show, Saturday Feb. 18, 5:30 PM and 8 PM show times, Rapson Hall

o Get your tickets soon! Three times the normal amount of tickets have already been sold.

o This year’s fashion show will be quite different from previous years. Implementing new seating, runways, and designer bios among other things.

• Mentor program update / Strengths workshop: February 2, 6-7:30, Mayo Auditorium

College of Design Student & Alumni Board Meeting Minutes: January 31, 2012

• Join Design LinkedIn group – currently 1744 members. Promote your programs, post

jobs/internships/events, ask questions, network. o Lots of student connections. o It creates a way for designers to communicate with each other easily. o Helps to bridge the gap between students and professionals.

5:40 Open Seats - planning, Lori Timing: Nominations for new board members will run January – April 2012. We will vote on new members in April to begin terms next fall 2012. There are several seats that have come open on the board. Board information and applications online at: http://www.design.umn.edu/alumni_friends/join/ (bottom of page)

o Attached to the agenda. o Anyone with a 2012 at the end of his or her name is scheduled to be ending. o A summary of open seats will be put together. o Looking specifically for sophomores and juniors since student terms are 2 years

long. o Also looking for alumni candidates who are wanting to help promote our

mission of enhancing the transition from college to career o Recommend DSAB to those you know who would be a good fit because it’s

more effective if the message comes from a friend as opposed to University personnel.

o By April, the executive board will be meeting for conference call to review nominees.

College to Career updates • D7 Speakers confirmed to date, sample illustration for trading cards passed around

o Design in 7 will be April 4th which is a Wednesday night. o Refer to the handout you received— it lists speakers we currently have and

then those we are still looking for. Handout also has information on spring DSAB events.

o Design in 7 speakers finalized / confirmed - make calls or send emails if you still need to and send contact information to Lucy for those who have confirmed.

o Student graphic designer has been hired for illustrating the “trading cards” this year. They feature an illustration of each presenter.

• Graphic Design program sponsored by DSAB: Best Pitch, February 29, 7 PM, McNeal Hall o See promo attached to agenda. o Graphic designers invited to talk about advice on pitching their ideas. (Four

confirmed presenters.) o Interesting and beneficial for students, although targeted at graphic and

interactive students. o Firms represented are: Tilka Design, Clockwork, Yamamoto, and LaBreche.

• College to Career request from Charlie – HOUS panel - request for panelist recommendations

o In the early stages of assembling a panel. o Hope to have a wide variety of careers within Housing and have a diverse mix of

recent grads as presenters. o Potential date is March 20th because the first selected date interferes with an

Architecture event.

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Discipline Team Meeting Breakout: 15 minutes to discuss Team updates

• Arch -Networking and Portfolio event, working on 21st or 22nd of March

• Housing -still looking for people for the career panel,

• Landscape -How to put together a brand, Wednesday, Feb 15, 13 Rapson Hall, 6:30-8pm, looking for panelists. May get some help from graphic designers.

• Retail -Trend panel, March 28 or around that date with 2-3 more people for the panel.

• Apparel -Speed networking event, two weeks after spring break (March 28), starting at about 6pm, 5-7 professionals, talk about industry, how to network, “faux-tinis”, targeted at all ADes students, 22 McNeal Hall.

• Graphic -Tour of Rapson facilities, packaging design, workshop tour, graphic designers. Gives student the opportunity to learn how to use equipment and know what resources are available, include DigiFab. Right after spring break March 20-23. -Late in the semester, open critique from freshmen-senior so younger students can get help from older, senior shows coming up after that, get them more help, etc. Mid-late April… their tour would probably interest interior and apparel students as well, maybe have multiple dates for each discipline

• Interior -Maple Grove hospital tour, April 12 or 19, or a Friday if easier with schedules. Start at 3 (cannot be during the day), students arrive at 4pm, cap it at 40 people, 4 separate groups of 10.

Mai: it’d be a good idea to have a collaborative event, maybe have students come and get portfolios/etc critiqued by various professionals of various disciplines Meeting adjourned: 6:51pm.

Design Student and Alumni Board Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 5:00-7:00 PM

274 McNeal Hall

Enhancing the student experience by supporting the transition from college to career Meeting Goals: 1) Advance DSAB nominations and elections 2) Prepare for Design in 7 and hosting at event

3) Sign up for UMAA Annual Celebration tickets 4) Identify fall 2012 College to Career (C2C) offerings – Plan A, Plan B…

AGENDA

5:00 Welcome, Meeting Goals & Introductions Ada/Mai

5:05 UMAA Report, Janice Linster, UMAA National Board Rep 5:20 UMAA Annual Celebration, April 20 – sign up for tickets, Lori 5:30 Dean's Reception and Calling Follow up, Kate/Lucy, participants

Calling Note from Lori Swenson: Our new freshmen are getting calls from various folks across the U of M, so we have been waiting for the most strategic time for you to reach out to your targeted populations. If we ask you to do some outreach calls within the next month, are you still willing to help out in this way? Are others available to help given the later start? People who said they'd call: Hannah Schneider, Connor Murphy, Laura Anderson, Brittany Walker

5:45 Nominations and Elections, Lori

See back of page for open seats. Seeking recommendations by the end of March. 6:00 Design in 7 – updates, hosting sign up, Lucy

6:10 Best Pitch debrief, Lori 6:15 Discipline Team meetings - Fall 2012 activities discussions begin 6:35 College to Career Fall Plans, Team chairs or representatives 6:55 New/Old Items, Ideas, News…

Upcoming events, Ada’s new job, others? Dates for your calendar:

• Design in 7, Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 PM registration, 7 PM program, Coffman Union Theater • Mentor Closing Celebration, Tuesday, April 3, 5-7 PM, McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall • UMAA Annual Celebration, Friday, April 20, TCF Bank Stadium, 5:30 cocktails, 7 PM dinner, 8 PM program • Commencement, Saturday, May 12, 3 PM, Mariucci Arena

Year-end Board Meeting: Tuesday, May 8, 5-7 PM

Spill the Wine (http://www.spillthewinerestaurant.com/) 1101 Washington Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55415 (612) 339-3388

DSAB OPEN SEATS FOR TERMS BEGINNING FALL 2012: Apparel 1 undergrad Architecture 1 undergrad, 1 grad student, (1 Alum: Ray Dehn would like to continue his term in alumnus seat) Design (1 Alum: Beth Bowman would like to continue in alumnus seat for this position for a second term) Graphic Design NONE (Connor filled Chris Ryan’s seat during his leave Fall 2011) Housing 1 undergrad Interior Design 2 undergrads (or could have one grad student and one undergrad) Landscape Arch/LDP 1 grad student, 1 BED/LDP alumnus Retail 1 undergrad, 1 alum NOTE: If you can make a personal invitation to someone you think would be a good fit for our board, that is often most effective. Applications for the board and information about our programs are posted online at: http://design.umn.edu/alumni_friends/join/ What do I do now? How DSAB Elections work: Step 1: Nominate people who are a good fit for open seats by March 30 (see above) Step 2: Discipline Team Review of Application and Recommendation of Candidates - Due by April 9

• See next page for an overview of applications received. • Discipline teams review applications for their major posted on our NetFiles file sharing site and

select preferred alumni and student applicants for their open seat(s). • Email Lori the names of recommended candidates by April 9 at 3 PM.

Step 3: All DSAB Members: Cast your vote between April 10-16

• Once the discipline teams have made their recommendations, Lori will update the online voting form and send an email inviting you to cast your vote.

• Between April 10 and 16, all DSAB members will go to z.umn.edu/dsabelect and vote on the recommended slate of new board members and officers.

Step 4: Lori & Lucy will follow up with all nominees and new elected members • New members will be invited to join the board for a year-end gathering on May 7 from 5-7 PM.

Time line is subject to change. Watch for emails from Lori or Lucy for links and instructions.

UMAA Annual Celebration Information

Join us for an elegant evening to celebrate your University.

Featuring President Eric Kaler and student entertainers Friday, April 20, 2012 TCF Bank Stadium 5:30 p.m. Reception and cocktail hour 7:00 p.m. Dinner (see meal choices below) 8:00 p.m. Program UMAA member prices: $75 per person, $700 per table of ten Nonmember prices: $85 per person, $800 per table of ten Current Students: $25 per person, limit 2 Cocktail attire encouraged Register with Lori Mollberg, lmollber@umn.edu at the meeting tonight!

2012 Annual Celebration Meal Choices

• Chicken roulade filled with wild rice and mushroom duxelles with caramelized onion potato puree • Roasted Thousand Hills beef tenderloin with tomato demi glace and lobster bread pudding • Hand rolled crimini mushroom lasagna rolls with aged U of M cheddar béchamel

Design Student and Alumni Board Year-end Meeting Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 5-7 PM Spill the Wine, Minneapolis Agenda 5:00 Drinks and hors d'oeuvres 5:30 Welcome, Ada & Mai

Introductions around the room • Tell us something most people don’t know about you or that will help everyone remember

your name and interests

5:50 Toast to our accomplishments and transition to discipline team tables, Lucy

• Fill new members in on what the group’s been doing as well as plans/ideas in the works for fall 2012 • Expand on ideas for fall/spring with the group while getting to know more about your team members over

food/drinks • Make notes for Lucy about your plans and contacts so she can follow up this summer, and advance

preparations for fall 2012

6:30 Reconvene, closing comments, Ada & Mai Recognize outgoing board members and officers + new presidents, Lori, Lucy & Kate

Continue to enjoy drinks and food

Design Student and Alumni Board Year-end Meeting Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 5-7 PM Spill the Wine, Minneapolis Agenda 5:00 Drinks and hors d'oeuvres 5:30 Welcome, Ada & Mai

Introductions around the room • Tell us something most people don’t know about you or that will help everyone remember

your name and interests

5:50 Toast to our accomplishments and transition to discipline team tables, Lucy

• Fill new members in on what the group’s been doing as well as plans/ideas in the works for fall 2012 • Expand on ideas for fall/spring with the group while getting to know more about your team members over

food/drinks • Make notes for Lucy about your plans and contacts so she can follow up this summer, and advance

preparations for fall 2012

6:30 Reconvene, closing comments, Ada & Mai Recognize outgoing board members and officers + new presidents, Lori, Lucy & Kate

Continue to enjoy drinks and food

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2011-2012 College to Career Events Summary

September

CDes Student Organization Welcome Back event September 11th, Rapson Hall, September 12th, McNeal Hall October

Architecture Graduate School Preparation Session Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Housing Alumni Gathering Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Retail Connect: Going Mobile, Getting Social... Shopping with Today's Consumers Thursday, October 27, 2011 November

Mentor Program Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - Kick-off Orientation Retail Merchandising Boutique Tour – Hot Mama and Drama Friday, November 11, 2011 Interior Design Revit Workshop Saturday, November 19, 2011 Apparel Design Movie Night Monday, November 28, 2011 December

Dirty Laundry Thursday, December 1, 2011 Graphic Design Tour Friday, December 9, 2011

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January

Tour to CoCo Minneapolis Friday, January 20, 2012 February

Landscape Architecture Branding Workshop Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Design Internship Panel Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Best Pitch: Selling Your Ideas With Style (Graphic Design) Wednesday, February 29, 2012 March

Retail and Design Trend Panel Wednesday, March 21, 6:00-7:30 pm Architecture Networking and Portfolio Event Thursday, March 22, 6:00-8:30 pm Apparel Design Speed Networking Wednesday, March 28, 6:00-7:30 pm April

Design in 7 Wednesday, April 4, 7:00-8:30 Interior Design Panel and Discussion with Professionals Friday, April 13, 11:45 am - 1:30 pm