Enhance your college experience by being a part of the Business Learning Community (BLC).
The BLC is a first-year living-learning community integrating academic, social, and career development opportunities to support you in making a smooth, successful transition to college and Kent State University. Students take specific courses together while engaging in various events designed to connect students to business faculty, academic advisors, and business mentors.
Select to live in Dunbar Hall, the home of the Business Learning Community. As the business residence hall on campus, Dunbar Hall provides many special amenities to business majors.
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If you are living on-campus and selecting to join the Business Learning Community, you will be required to live in Dunbar Hall as part of the community.
Commuters and Honors College students are welcome to join, and are not required to live in Dunbar Hall. Join the Business Learning Community to enjoy the community amenities in Dunbar Hall and connect with other business majors.
As a first-year BLC student, you will enroll in introductory business courses with fellow community members. This adds the learning aspect to the living-learning experience and fosters connections with your peers.
Additionally, as a BLC student you will select a smaller interest area group to help you meet students and faculty who share similar interests with you. Interest area groups are built around the First-Year Experience (FYE) orientation course and cover a variety of topics.
Designated for first-year business majors who are coming in with college credits, a strong academic record, or students who are in the Honors College.
Gain information on business careers and how to make the most of your college experience.
Designed for the emerging entrepreneur that has the drive, ambition and passion to succeed in an entrepreneurial environment.
Open to first-year entrepreneurship majors and those interested in entrepreneurship.
Learn about accounting careers and get connected early with opportunities in the accounting major.
Open to first-year accounting majors.
Connect with marketing students, alumni, organizations and professional speakers.
For first-year marketing and managerial marketing majors, or general business majors considering marketing.
Connect with the College of Business Administration, resources on campus, and learn about potential careers in business.
Open to all business majors in their first-year.
Designed to provide a supportive forum to explore topics related to diversity in business. Discuss race and culture and how these can influence and shape academic, social and professional success.
Open to all racially diverse first-year business majors and allies.
Learn about education abroad opportunities available through the College of Business Administration and Kent State.
For first-year business majors interested in broadening their cultural horizons.
In order to join, you must be a first-year student majoring in business.
