Every year at the start of the fall semester, in a carnival like atmosphere, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Shidler College of Business welcomes hundreds of new and returning students with an event called Shidler Day. The event is co-sponsored by the Shidler Inter-Business Council and Meadow Gold Dairies Hawaiʻi.
“We want, first of all, for our students to feel welcome here,” said Vance Roley, dean of the Shidler College of Business. “We want them to see all the clubs they can join, to be further engaged in the programs and the other events we have at the college.”
“It’s a great way to get the students who are incoming into Shidler to join them. They can learn networking skills and attend social events and make friends with everybody,” said business major Joann Yang.
UH Mānoa freshman Agatha Danglapin said, “They were telling me about how we had an orientation. If I wanted to come by, they have free food and if I wanted to check it out and see what they were about.”
Fellow UH Mānoa freshman Stefani Lew also recognized the benefits of the Shidler Day event. “I am new and I don’t know anyone, also I am from the mainland, so this helps for me think about how I will be able to make connections and friends,” said Lew.
The Shidler College of Business undergraduate program is regularly in the U.S. News and World Report’s top 20 in international business and the MBA and undergraduate programs are in the top 25 percent in the rankings of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
“I’m very proud of what we have achieved here and it is because of our alumni and friends,” said Roley.
