Baylor Center for Professional Selling Hosts Baylor President and Advisors for Undergraduate Advisor Day
Baylor’s Center for Professional Selling (ProSales) hosted Baylor President Dr. Linda Livingstone, Baylor’s Undergraduate Advisors and Baylor Career & Professional Development representatives in the President’s Suite at McLane Stadium on September 27 for its annual Undergraduate Advisor Breakfast. This event celebrates the work of advisors and student support teams and affords them the opportunity to engage with counterparts from across campus to share experiences while learning more about the Professional Selling program.
During the event, Dr. Livingstone commended advisors and student support representatives, who are on the front line assisting students as they navigate their academic and career paths, as well as personal issues. “It’s so important to our students to have people like you who they can trust and who are going to help them make the best choices they can as they work their way through their academic experience,” she noted. “One of the most important things we can do every day is be there for our students.”
Advisors were presented with framed proclamations signed by Dr. Livingstone proclaiming the day as “Undergraduate Advisor Day” and recognizing their selfless service, which positively impacts both Baylor University and Baylor students.
“We prepare carefully for each student who comes in for an appointment,” explained Joyce Miller, Senior Director of University Advisement. “Occasions when we can come together around the table with other advisors to share ideas is quite valuable, so that we have takeaways and resources that we can use in our conversations with these students and our colleagues.”
Center for Professional Selling Executive Director Dr. Andrea Dixon shared with the advisors three starkly different profiles of ProSales students, each of whom struggled personally and/or academically during their Baylor experience. She highlighted how each went on to be successful at Baylor and in their careers post-graduation because of the support they received at Baylor.
Hatt Fadal, Director of Hankamer School of Business Undergraduate Programs and whose team advises a broad range of students, stressed the importance of recognizing student potential and helping those students realize their potential. “You have to work at not categorizing anyone, and who they are right now is not who they’re going to end up being. We have to help who they are right now and put them in a place to succeed.”
About the Center for Professional Selling
Dedicated to excellence in sales education and based in the university’s Hankamer School of Business, the Center for Professional Selling is recognized as one of the premier global information resources for the sales profession. For more information on the Center for Professional Selling, visit https://hankamer.baylor.edu/prosales.