{"id":438,"date":"2020-04-29T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=438"},"modified":"2023-05-29T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:02:58","slug":"receiving-the-king-chavez-parks-future-faculty-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2020\/04\/29\/receiving-the-king-chavez-parks-future-faculty-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving the King Chavez Parks Future Faculty Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past 21 years, I have been teaching as a part-time lecturer at a number of colleges and universities in California (where I am originally from) to Canada, and now in Michigan, where I reside. I had always wanted to teach, even when I was earning my undergraduate degree, and when I began working in advertising during the dot com bubble and was offered an opportunity to teach a marketing class for UCLA, I jumped at the chance which ended up being the start of my ‘academic career’. Throughout the many years that I have taught undergraduate and MBA students in a number of business school programs, I have found my situation odd in that I never had the opportunity to go back and earn a graduate degree of my own. Life simply got in the way — marriage, kids, businesses, part-time teaching, all of them time-consuming and demanding endeavors. Only recently, at the ripe old age of 49 (50 at the start of my first semester at UM-Flint) did I finally have the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree to not only better connect with students I teach, but to also push myself to broaden my understanding of and appreciation for business and the business of teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s funny because I see my experience as an MBA student to be an ethnographic study of the MBA student experience. I am learning SO MUCH about what it ‘feels like’ to be a student and it has dramatically increased my level of empathy in more ways than I can count. Before I was accepted to the program, I attended an open house and was delighted by a flier for the King Chavez Parks Future Faculty Fellowship<\/a>. It read like it was tailor made just for me! I actually couldn’t believe my eyes because I never thought such an opportunity existed, so I had to read it three different times to make sure I was seeing straight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t expect to be awarded the fellowship, understanding that these opportunities are highly competitive and selective, but was truly humbled to receive the good news. I had always pursued my MBA as a professional development project to better equip me with tools that would assist me in teaching MBA’s, and I intend to continue teaching upon graduation from UM-Flint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raymond Pirouz is an MBA student at UM-Flint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past 21 years, I have been teaching as a part-time lecturer at a number of colleges and universities in California (where I am originally from) to Canada, and now in Michigan, where I reside. I had always wanted to teach, even when I was earning my undergraduate degree, and when I began working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-administration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}