Jim McClenahan | University of Nevada, Reno

Abstract

Jim at the moment serves on the Faculty of Enterprise Director of Company Relations. Day by day, he strives to attach college students with native, nationwide, and worldwide enterprise professionals. Alongside his workforce within the Profession and Company Outreach Middle, he creates profession occasions, networking alternatives, and workshops that equip college students with the abilities and assets to grow to be enterprise professionals. Jim additionally cultivates relationships with the Company Companions of the Faculty of Enterprise, securing funds for scholar packages and strengthening the Faculty’s ties to the neighborhood. Jim proudly developed and coordinates the Nevada World Enterprise program that presents college students the chance to journey and examine enterprise operations in eight completely different nations overseas. Regardless of the various hats he wears, Jim says his most necessary function is to is to make college students profitable. He’s typically quoted saying, “I make college students profitable, however I don’t get to outline what success is, college students do.”

Training

Jim McClenahan’s mission is to hyperlink the College of Nevada, Reno Faculty of Enterprise’s most beneficial asset – its college students – with corporations that can profit from their abilities and expertise and assist these college students develop of their private {and professional} abilities.

As the school’s govt director of outreach and engagement, McClenahan is accountable for connecting college students to companies by way of neighborhood occasions, internships, mentorships and offering contacts for profession alternatives. He’s additionally accountable for the Nevada World Enterprise program, which takes college students around the globe for experiential alternatives and for administering the school’s Company Companions program. Because the Faculty expands packages to particular industries, McClenahan is engaged because the Director of the Faculty of Enterprise Actual Property Initiative, and the Interim Director of the Institute to Research Gaming and Industrial Playing. McClenahan additionally teaches advertising and marketing in The Faculty of Enterprise Govt MBA program.

McClenahan holds a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration from the College of Nevada, Reno and bachelor’s diploma in economics from the College of California, Santa Cruz.

McClenahan at the moment serves as Chair of the Board of Administrators for United Federal Credit score Union, a $3 Billion nationwide monetary establishment, and as previous chair of the Board of Administrators for Junior Achievement Northern Nevada, a nonprofit devoted to monetary literacy in Okay-12 colleges. He just lately completed his time period because the previous chairman of the board for The Reno Chamber of Commerce.

He and his spouse Karen have lived in Reno since 2000 and luxuriate in all of the outside actions Northern Nevada has obtainable.

Programs taught

• BADM 760
• BADM 791
• BADM 729
• BADM 793
• BUS 400
• MGT 480
• MGT 496
• ECON 102
• MGT 491