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The Sixth Annual Business School Mini-Con 2025

November 19, 2025
12:00 PM EST
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Back for the sixth year in a row is the  Suitable Business School Mini-Conference!

We invite you to join us on November 19th at 12 PM (ET) as we bring in top business school leaders to tackle critical discussions on the new assessment and accreditation standards, tracking experiential learning, breaking down departmental silos, boosting student professional development, and career readiness!

To kick off this event, we welcome our partners from CSU Northridge’s College of Business to showcase their student engagement program, “Professional Passport Program”. You’ll learn how they successfully implemented Suitable, effective strategies for integrating co-curricular learning at scale, and tips for effortlessly capturing direct and indirect assessment data. Plus, they will even share best practices for utilizing student engagement data from Suitable to meet AACSB accreditation, CIR, and AoL reporting needs.

To close out the event, gear up for a dynamic panel made up of your peers from the Alvarez College of Business at the University of Texas San Antonio and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, and the Smeal College of Business Graduate program at Penn State University. These influential leaders will provide important perspectives on the burgeoning shift to competency-based recruiting, practical use-cases for integrating AI into the student experience, and will break down the latest trends facing business education.

This event will provide:

  • An overview of how these top Business Schools utilize Suitable’s competency framework to align their Assurance of Learning goals with both the curricular and co-curricular experience.
  • An inside look at how to pick the right student engagement technology and avoid student disengagement to leverage experiential learning to bridge curricular and co-curricular experiences.
  • A walkthrough of the different direct and indirect assessment data capturing tools that Suitable’s platform offers.
  • Best practices for engaging business students in professional development programs.

This agenda features a partner spotlight story with an interactive Q&A and a panel session. The event is free to attend, and a post-event recording will be sent out to all those who register. Don’t wait, RSVP now!

Agenda

Wednesday, November 19 12:00PM-12:30PM

Opening Remarks

Akash Kathiari kicks off the Business School Mini-Con with some light icebreakers, a brief Suitable overview, and some more exciting announcements!

Wednesday, November 19 12:30PM-1:30PM

CSUN Partner Spotlight

Join our partners from CSU Northridge’s College of Business to showcase their student engagement program, “Professional Passport Program”. You’ll learn how they successfully implemented Suitable, effective strategies for integrating co-curricular learning at scale, and tips for effortlessly capturing direct and indirect assessment data.

Wednesday, November 19 1:30PM-3:00PM

Panel of Peers

Join our dynamic panel made up of your peers from the Alvarez College of Business at the University of Texas San Antonio and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, and the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University.

Speakers

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Akash Kathiari

Director of University Partnerships, Suitable

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Ann Crain

Director of Undergrad Student Engagement, Broad College of Business, Michigan State University

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Craig Oka

Director, Career Education and Professional Development, Nazarian College of Business, California State University, Northridge

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Julio Joey Ramos

Director of Student Success at UTSA Alvarez College of Business

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Danielle Rodriguez

CEPD Program Manager, Nazarian College of Business, California State University, Northridge

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Joseph Ianiero

Director of Graduate Career Services, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University

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