BizHawks Living-Learning Community
What Is the BizHawks Living-Learning Community?
The BizHawks Living-Learning Community is a unique living/learning opportunity for business and prebusiness students interested in entrepreneurship, leadership, and/or business.
Required course
Members will be enrolled in Introduction to Sociology, which will fulfill one of your General Education Program requirements. All BizHawks will be in the same lecture and discussion section for this class.
At Orientation, BizHawks will meet with an academic advisor who will help you build your schedule around this course.
Benefits include:
- Make friends with fellow business majors
- Take common courses
- Join the BizHawks Advisory Board! Meet current board members
- Presentations from corporate leaders and successful entrepreneurs
- Social activities, including movie nights, bowling, and picnics
Why Is Living in the BizHawks Living-Learning Community Unique?
Members of this community form a close bond as they live together and share common interests in leadership, entrepreneurship, and business. Programs and activities are geared toward these areas. In this quiet house environment, students have the opportunity to focus on their area of interest, form informal study groups, and make relationships that will last a lifetime.
How Do I Apply?
We are looking for 80 business and prebusiness students who would like to develop their leadership skills and be active, involved participants in the community. Interested applicants must request the BizHawks LLC option on the UI housing application. This community is assigned with priority given to direct admits and prebusiness students on a first-come, first-served basis.
For More Information
Contact Dawn Bowlus in the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center or Melissa Baker in the Tippie College of Business. Call toll free 800-553-IOWA (extension 5-0985 for Dawn and extension 5-1037 for Melissa).
