Blog Archive Beyond the MBA Classroom Dartmouth Tuck GIVES

Blog Archive Beyond the MBA Classroom Dartmouth Tuck GIVES When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. April 2013 marked the 13th annual  Tuck GIVES (Grants to Interns and Volunteers for the Environment and Society)  auction, a student-led event that raises money to fund salaries for Tuck students who accept internships with nonprofits.  The event includes both a silent auction and a live auction, and in 2013, culminated in a Studio 54â€"themed party. The club’s Web site instructed attendees, “Think the hottest night club from the 1970s, tons of glitz and glam, Raether [Hall] as a disco night club, ‘Staying Alive’ and Saturday Night Fever.” The year prior (2012), the event closed with a Roaring ’20s party. Students dress up for the event in their fanciest attire and watch two of their classmates lead the auction of donated items. These offerings can range from dinners with faculty (such as a Cajun-style group dinner cooked by Dean Paul Danos and a South African group dinner hosted by a professor) to vacations (including a vacation package at a luxury resort in Bermuda and a trip to a ski resort in Colorado) to student-hosted themed dinners, tickets to Red Sox games, tennis and fly-fishing lessons, babysitting services and a daylong workout session with Tuckies from the Armed Forces. About the auctions, a member of the schools admissions staff told mbaMission, “Our goal is maximum participation of the Tuck community, which includes students, their partners, staff and faculty. I have donated two necklaces and bracelets that I made from African beads I purchased in Ghana, one of the deans auctions off an evening in his barn, which is actually a huge, wonderfully furnished place with a giant TV and barâ€"and other folks offer dinners, photography, painting and just all sorts of things.” The event’s Web site notes that the auction has raised almost $600,000 since its inception in 2001. For in-depth descriptions of social and community activities at Dartmouth Tuck and 15 other top MBA programs, check out the  mbaMission Insider’s Guides. Share ThisTweet Beyond the MBA Classroom Dartmouth College (Tuck) Blog Archive Beyond the MBA Classroom Dartmouth Tuck GIVES When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment, but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. April 2011 marked the 11th annual Tuck GIVES (Grants to Interns and Volunteers for the Environment and Society)  auction, a student-led event that raises money to fund salaries for Tuck students who accept internships with nonprofits. The event includes both a silent auction and a live auction. According to Tuck’s admissions blog, students dress up for the event in their fanciest attire and watch two of their classmates lead the auction of donated items. These offerings can range from dinners with faculty (such as a Cajun-style group dinner cooked by Dean Paul Danos and a South African group dinner hosted by a professor) to vacations (including a vacation package at a luxury resort in Bermuda and a trip to a ski resort in Colorado) to student-hosted themed dinners, tickets to Red Sox games, tennis and fly-fishing lessons, babysitting services and a day-long workout session with Tuckies from the Armed Forces. About the auctions, a member of the admissions staff told mbaMission, “Our goal is maximum participation of the Tuck community, which includes students, their partners, staff and faculty. I have donated two necklaces and bracelets that I made from African beads I purchased in Ghana, one of the deans auctions off an evening in his barn, which is actually a huge, wonderfully furnished place with a giant TV and bar, and other folks offer dinners, photography, painting and just all sorts of things.” The April 2010 Tuck GIVES auction raised more than $51,000. For in-depth descriptions of social and community activities at Dartmouth Tuck and 15 other top MBA programs, check out the  mbaMission Insider’s Guides. Share ThisTweet Beyond the MBA Classroom Dartmouth College (Tuck)