Spartan Spotlight: Justin Krueger

Spartan Spirit: Life Outside of the Classroom

One of the benefits of being a student in the Residential Business Program is building life-long friendships with people who share the the same interests, the same motivation to succeed, and the same goals for the future as you do.

During the first week of the semester, you make a lot of new friends both inside and outside of the Residential Business Program.

Freshman move-in day is always full of anticipation, but excitement as well. It is the day in which the journey as a Spartan officially begins. At first, seeing new faces and people you don't

Your friends and colleagues will provide you with a healthy opportunity to academically compete to be the best.

When incoming freshman attend their Academic Orientation Program over the summer before their first year at Michigan State University, students are able to meet other students who are interested in pursuing the same field of study. Those students who applied and have been accepted into the Residential Business Program will meet with Dr. Amy Radford-Popp, the program director and primary academic adviser for students in the living-learning community, for the first time and meet other students of the community. In small and exclusive imformation panels, Residential Business Program students get their first insight into their major and the requirements they need to fulfill in order to apply and be accepted into the Eli Broad College of Business.

Inside the Classroom

From Left to Right: Chad McFee and Yi Li

Students participating in the Residential Business Program are encouraged to work with their fellow peers and colleagues in their classes, promoting academic collaboration, development, and success. When incoming freshman students come to campus over the summer for their Academic Orientation Program (AOP), the students who have been selected to be in the program will enroll in specially reserved sections of highly demanded courses such as mathematics and writing. This allows students to get together and form study groups and discuss the material that they are learning in the class.

Enrollment in two one-credit seminar courses is required by all students in the program during their freshman year with an optional one-credit seminar course for sophomore students in the program.

BUS 101: Freshman Seminar in Business (Fall Semester of Freshman Year)

Home Sweet Home: Experience Living in McDonel Hall

Students of the Residential Business Program live on the first two-three floors of East McDonel Hall, which is located in the River Trail Neighborhood at Michigan State University. McDonel Hall opened in 1963 and is named for Irma and Karl McDonel (Karl was secretary to the State Board of Agriculture, which is now the Michigan State University Board of Trustees). The residence hall houses all levels of students as well as a large percentage of the university's international students.

McDonel Hall features the River Trail Neighborhood Engagement Center, which offer both general academic advising as well as academic advising for prospective and current business students in the Eli Broad College of Business; free tutoring in subjects such as accounting, economics, and mathematics; a writing help center; individual and group study space for students; and a Sparty's Refresh convenience store. With one multipurpose lecture hall and two R.E.A.L. classrooms (high-tech collaborative and innovative classrooms for business students), McDonel Hall is also an important academic facility at the university. The Michigan State University Department of Anthropology's archaeological facilities are located here, which include five archaeological research laboratories, a storage of teaching collections, and a university-owned repository.

McDonel Hall has both coed and non-coed floors and have suite-style living arrangements. The Residential Business Program floors are coed by suite, where four students of the same gender share a bathroom between two rooms.

Go to http://liveon.msu.edu/rivertrail/mcdonel to learn more about McDonel Hall and residence living at Michigan State University.

Karl and Irma McDonel Hall

817 East Shaw Lane

East Lansing, Michigan 48825

East McDonel Hall Service Center: (517) 353-1292

West McDonel Hall Service Center: (517) 353-1602

Bristol Day, Community Director: (517) 353-1598 or daybrist@msu.edu

Tom Welburn, Facilities Manager: (517) 884-4414 or welburn@msu.edu

But First, Why Michigan State University?

Yes, students chose to be apart of the Residential Business Program living-learning community to set that solid foundation for their future as students as well as their professional careers as businessmen and women. But first and foremost, students have chosen to be apart of a bigger community, a bigger family of bright individuals who are determined to change our world in monumental ways.

So, who and what is Michigan State University?

At Michigan State University, students accept the challenge to challenge themselves in not only academics, but in all aspects of life. At Michigan State University, students continue the longtime tradition of hard work and dedication towards a better, more innovative future. At Michigan State University, students choose how they want to define their Spartan journey.

How will you change the world?

The Office of Admissions at Michigan State University invites you to learn more. Join the mailing list at www.beaspartan.msu.edu.

Welcome to Our Community

Welcome to the Residential Business Program (RBP), which is sometimes referred to as the Broad Freshman Program (BFP), at Michigan State University, a program that is dedicated to developing professionalism and academic success in the beginning years as a Spartan. As the living-learning community and experience for freshmen and sophomore business students, the Residential Business Program brings together a diverse group of individuals who share the same determination, motivation, and willingness to succeed. But most importantly, being apart of the Residential Business Program is the opportunity to build lifelong friendships and lasting memories with people whom you will continue to be close with for the rest of your time at Michigan State University and beyond.

Come and learn more about our community and the opportunities that it has to offer!