Mays Business Online

For years, college students go to class, make good grades, and build their resumes in order to land great jobs. With a formula so simple, success should be easy, right? Wrong. Elise Hilgemeier, a finance major at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is one of the many students around the nation feeling the crunch of unemployment as she struggles to find a job before her May graduation.

For a group of 24 upperclassmen at Mays Business School, the 2008 election was filled with more political dialogue than most, thanks to an innovative class taught by Management Professor Len Bierman called “Business Issues and the 2008 Presidential Election.” According to Bierman, the purpose of the once-weekly upper division class was to get students talking about issues they may not have considered when it comes to the intersection of money and politics.