Campus business clubs emphasizing diversity recruited new members during the W.P. Carey School of Business’ Student Involvement Week on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Asian Business Leaders Association is geared towards specific types of minorities, but also welcome students from all backgrounds, including finance junior and ABLA spokesman Michael Matthews.
“We want to help anybody who wants to help in reaching their career goals," Matthews said. "Not just individuals of the Asian community."
The American Business Women’s Association hosts events for volunteering in the community and bringing in guest speakers with business backgrounds.
“Our guest speakers are all professional women,” ABWA President Kelly Carruthers said. “They talk to us and help our members understand what it is like to be a woman competing in the business world today.”
Many of these clubs have been operating at ASU for a long time. The Hispanic Business Student Association has been in existence for 38 years at ASU.
The events are important because they present opportunities for the groups to reach out and educate possible new members, Matthews said.
“We really want to be out there so other students can get involved with us and we can offer them the opportunities that we’ve offered other students in the past,” business management junior Crystal Carrillo said.
While the clubs are centered on business development, the overarching goal for these organizations is to foster academic support and initiate a feeling of community amongst minority students, Carrillo said.
“It can be very difficult at times to be a Native American student,” President of the Native American Business Organization Adrian Dotson said. “It is important for them to hear about us and know that we are here to support them.”
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