Alumni and Partners
Semester End Celebrations
An Alumni Mixer is held mid-semester to allow networking between past students who have gone through the same journey as current students. Business Honors Program alumni and sponsors are invited to attend the semester end celebration honoring graduating students. Both graduating students and current students, honors faculty, and the Dean of the LCOB will be in attendance. You will be notified via the Business Honors Program Linked-In group of the date, place and time. The purpose is to provide current students with the benefit of your experience, and to provide you with the opportunity to network with some of your fellow alumni, honors project teams, and honors faculty.
How You Can Help
We would appreciate any ideas you might have regarding how we might involve alumni and project sponsors more in the program. Some things you could consider include:
- Attending Networking Events
- Mentoring honor students
- Coffee Talks with honor students about work experience
- Providing speakers, or being a speaker in guest lectures
- Provide Scholarship opportunities to honor students
- Please contact the Honors Coordinator, or the program director, Bahram Parineh.
Alumni Testimonials
This semester was truly one for the books. Being able to talk to you [professors] in class, in office hours, and through text really showed how committed you ... were to our success. The guest speakers ... proved to be very helpful for [our] career development. I looked forward to seeing who … was speaking [every] week. The projects this semester were also very interesting... Having both profit and nonprofit entities as sponsors showed how necessary marketing and analysis are. Thank you, Professors Eisips, McFeely, and Boveda for a wonderful semester, and I look forward to what you ... have in store for the future honors classes.
I have had a great semester in the program. [Even though] we were not able to have class in person like I would have hoped, ...the class was still very fun and I learned far more than anything I could have in a traditional class setting. The professors did an amazing job providing us with resources and keeping us on track with our projects and I am very excited to see the program develop over the years. In terms of the client, they were excellent at responding to us and open to our input, which made the process fluid and enjoyable for all parties.
- Mihir Hansalia, MKTBA Honors Student
I am so tremendously impressed with the group of scholars you have brought together and are supporting. In addition to their high level of engagement during the recent webinar, I am most impressed with the level of follow up… in a way that was very professional and bodes well for [the students’] ability to connect and work with senior leaders. I suspect there is some good coaching and training that supports them in this… Bottom line: I want to thank you for the bringing me into connection with such an extraordinary group.
- Kip Harkness, City of San Jose, Guest Speaker and Panel Moderator, CivicTech Panel
Over the years we’ve been honored to have had the opportunity to work with several Honors student projects. I am continually amazed at how curious, professional, and smart these SJSU students are. Their project results have not only been incredibly good real-life training for the students but very valuable for our productivity. This appears to also be a direct reflection of outstanding educational input and direction stemming from the professors, instructors, and staff at SJSU.
- Lou Ramondetta, President, Surplus Service, Sbona Client Sponsor
