{"id":1607,"date":"2013-03-14T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2013-03-14T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:03:55","slug":"coba-continues-to-produce-exceptional-undergraduate-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2013\/03\/14\/coba-continues-to-produce-exceptional-undergraduate-research\/","title":{"rendered":"COBA Continues to Produce Exceptional Undergraduate Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College of Business at ACU is committed to involving students in undergraduate research, something that sets us apart from many of our larger competitors. While participating in undergraduate research gives students a hands-on opportunity to conduct research, it also provides students with the chance to be mentored by a memeber of our faculty and to learn from them in a one-on-one setting.<\/p>\n

Ashley Truong, a junior marketing major, has had the opportunity to work with Dr. Malcolm Coco on research concerning internships. Ashley describes this project\u2019s focus, saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cOur research paper, \u2018Content Analysis of Student and Company Reactions to a University Internship Program,\u2019 is about the purpose of internships, the advantages and disadvantages of internships, host companies, student likes and dislikes about internships, and suggestions for host companies and students.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the past several years, Dr. Coco has surveyed all COBA interns and their host companies at the conclusion of each internship. Through this survey, Dr. Coco has collected data on suggestions that host companies have for their interns and vice versa, as well as likes and dislikes that each party had about the internship. Because this study has spanned multiple years, Dr. Coco has been able to compile a list of recommendations for both interns and host companies that should help internships flow smoothly.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Malcolm Coco<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAt the start of each internship program, I provide the students and host companies a master list of the data collected over the past 10 years,\u201d Dr. Coco elaborated. \u201cThis information will hopefully tell the interns and host company representatives what will make their internship experience more meaningful.\u00a0 In other words, to do the things that work and avoid the things that don’t.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the external benefits of Dr. Coco\u2019s research results, the actual research process has numerous benefits for students like Ashley, an aspect of the project that Dr. Coco believes is important.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is fun to do research with undergrads.\u00a0 It hopefully encourages them to think about masters and maybe doctoral work and of course increases their knowledge about the subject being researched,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ashley has enjoyed working on this project, although she has discovered that learning how to find research can be challenging. In spite of the challenges, she feels that the project has taught her a lot, in addition to being very rewarding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has not only been a huge blessing, but it has also been a great learning experience,\u201d she explained. \u201cI have been able to work directly with Dr. Coco on this research project, and project has also allowed me to use what I have learned and apply it to my current classes, especially Marketing Research\u2026I think everyone should find a mentor and friend during college and beyond.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to Ashley Truong and Dr. Malcolm Coco on their acceptance to the ACU Undergraduate Research Festival and to the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines Conference in Dallas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The College of Business at ACU is committed to involving students in undergraduate research, something that sets us apart from many of our larger competitors. While participating in undergraduate research gives students a hands-on opportunity to conduct research, it also provides students with the chance to be mentored by a memeber of our faculty and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6633,2750,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coba-faculty","category-current-students","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}