1. Personal Attention: Business professors who are working with you inside and outside of the classroom.
2. Specialized Accreditation: By the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE).

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3. Business Sense: A curriculum designed to give you a feel for, and experience with, real business practices.
4. Critical Skills: Classes focused on helping you develop skills not just for your first job - but for all the jobs that follow.
5. Personal Character: Business studies rooted in a liberal arts environment where values matter.

Want some perspective on the current financial market and macroeconomic mess? Try some of these out:

• Expecting the SJC Investment Club Puma Fund to have escaped the market meltdown? No way. One good bit of news, though: The Club's plans to buy Under Armour (UA) at $27 turned into a great buy at $18.
• Marginal Revolution - A smart blog by smart economists.
• Russell Roberts on Some Fundamentals - Author of a book used in SJC macroeconomics classes discusses the roots of the problem in a Wall Street Journal piece.
• Greg Mankiw's Sensible Comments - Harvard professor, former head of the White House Council of Economic Advisrs, and author of a text in macroeconomics; his blog is popular among students and economists alike.
• A Depression? - Important differences between 1930s and now, according to this podcast from NPR.

SJC student leaders of SIFE manage activities on Free Enterprise Day.

SIFE Leaders Host Free Enterprise Day
High shool students from six area schools descended on campus in November for Free Enterprise Day. Managed by SJC's Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) leaders, the day this year involved design and promotion of dance club business.

Puma Poppers Return in MKT 311 - Sales and Marketing Management
Senior marketing students in Professor Massoels' project-oriented sales class will once again plan, produce, promote, and sell chocolate Puma Poppers in the Winter Semester. See how they did it last year.

The premier CPA review program now is a part of the accounting curriculum at SJC.

Accounting Students Get Leading Edge CPA Review
Puma accounting students not only get a great undergraduate degree, they also get leading edge prep for the CPA exam. That's through the highly regarded Becker CPA course. "It gives our graduates the very best step forward toward completing their CPA exam successfully," explains Associate Professor of Accounting Terra Maienbrook. "And that's a huge step toward a great accounting career."

Chicago Network Reception on January 28
The SJC Business Network of Chicago meets for its annual reception on Wednesday, January 28. twnety-four junior and senior accounting, business and economics students will make the trip to shake hands and hobnob with alumni in the Loop.