1/9/23
By FHSU University Communications
HAYS, Kan. – Just one 12 months in the past, Fort Hays State University launched a partnership with Hays Academy of Hair Design to supply Hays Academy students the chance to take 4 enterprise programs whereas working towards a Business Essentials Certificate.
This previous fall semester, two students, Dawson McDonough and Afrika Kaman-King, had been the primary to complete this system.
This partnership, permits students to enroll in a minimum of one FHSU class and pay acceptable pupil charges to get pleasure from a wide range of providers provided to all Fort Hays State students, together with participation in all pupil actions and organizations, entry to well being and health providers and sporting occasions, on-campus pupil housing choices, and extra.
Four lessons developed by Fort Hays State school make up the Business Essentials certificates. The lessons are Management Practices, Personal Finance, Basics of Accounting and Taxes, and Social Media Marketing.
Each of these lessons run from 4:30 to six:30 p.m. each Monday for eight weeks, in order that they don’t battle with the students’ hours at Hays Academy.
Dr. Stacey Smith, chair of the Department of Applied Business Studies, labored with school to develop the programs for the certificates.
“These students already do some enterprise coursework on the academy,” Smith mentioned. “This partnership helps them improve and construct upon their enterprise data.”
For Dawson McDonough, this program match completely into her future plans.
“I already had intentions of attending Fort Hays to get my enterprise diploma after graduating HAHD after I discovered about this program,” McDonough mentioned. “I noticed this program as a chance to raised myself for my shoppers and my enterprise and develop my data of what it takes to personal and/or run a enterprise.”
Originally from Loveland, Colorado, McDonough has lived in Hays for nearly three years. She plans to complete her affiliate’s diploma in enterprise by FHSU whereas working full time at Inspire Salon in Plainville.
Because the Hays Academy has 4 completely different begin dates for lessons, together with February, May, August, and October, and every cohort attends class for 9 months, finishing 1,500 clock hours, discovering housing could be a actual problem.
Dr. Dennis King, affiliate vp of enrollment administration at FHSU, famous housing as one of many obstacles this partnership will assist students overcome.
“Academy students beginning on, for instance, the October begin date, can have a spot to dwell instantly as a substitute of looking for a home or residence in the course of the college semester,” King mentioned. “We had two students in campus housing this fall and are going to have three within the spring.”
FHSU is providing housing contracts to Hays Academy students on a month-to-month foundation. That service may benefit any Hays Academy pupil, even these taking the academy’s three-month nail know-how program.
“This program is a win-win for everybody,” mentioned Hays Academy’s Len Melvin – an FHSU alum. “This helps the group by attracting students to the realm, through which many will stay even after finishing these packages. It helps each us and FHSU recruit.”
“I’m extraordinarily grateful to everybody within the Hays Academy household and at Fort Hays who took further day trip of their lives to spend their evenings educating these lessons,” McDonough mentioned. “If anybody is contemplating taking these lessons, I might extremely suggest them. Not solely did I acquire an abundance of data, I constructed relationships with the instructors and different students. I’m very completely satisfied that I received to undergo each HAHD and FHSU with Afrika.”
For extra details about the Business Essentials Certificate program contact Len Melvin of the Hays Academy of Hair Design at [email protected], or Dr. Stacey Smith at [email protected].
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