Mauldin: Society is changing the way it does banking. LI: What other challenges will you be preparing your students to face? An advisory board composed of leading bankers will help ensure that the program is meeting industry demands. But we do want to recruit more students from rural and small towns, because urban students aren’t as likely to work there. Mauldin: We’re preparing students to work in banking across the board we’re not targeting just the rural or small bank niche. LI: Are you hoping to meet the special needs of community/rural banks? We’ll also be collaborating with the School of Banking from time to time, but we’re a stand-alone program. Mauldin: Along with the finance professors, the marketing and IT faculty will be teaching courses as well. LI: How will this program interface with the rest of the business school and the School of Banking? We want to recruit them and encourage them to consider this program earlier on. We’re also trying to start a banking club that may participate with other business clubs and would be open to underclassmen, too. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with banking professionals and alumni.
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They include a required banking internship, plus I’ll be proposing a mentoring program, organizing conferences and workshops, promoting student organization activities and arranging visits to numerous banks, including the Federal Reserve, to observe how they operate. LI: Are you planning any unique teaching tools or different approaches to instruction? A lot of students don’t know that bankers are involved in the legislative process, so this would be a real-life learning experience. We’d also like to take field trips to the state Capitol during legislative sessions.
Mauldin: Along with working as interns, they’ll have experts from the field in class giving fresh perspectives on actual banking practices, like customer interviews, for example. LI: What will students gain from this program that they can’t learn at other schools or on the job? I and several other current faculty members will teach EIB courses. Eventually, I’d like to have 40 students per classification. Mauldin: We’ve admitted 12 so far, and we hope to have 20 by fall 2020. LI: How many students and faculty do you expect to participate the first year? We want to encompass other areas – “paint with a broader brush,” so to speak. And they’ll have to pass a test administered by the Risk Management Association in order to graduate with a banking certification.īanking schools generally teach commercial lending, but it’s also about wealth management, information technology (IT), trusts, etc. Mauldin: It’s an upper-level undergraduate, and soon-to-be graduate, certificate program for finance majors.* They’ll learn about managing financial institutions, personal selling, credit and lending, loan analytics and financial statements. LI: Would you describe the curriculum and degree plan the program will offer? Tech conducts a lower-level School of Banking, and Southern Methodist University in Dallas offers a three-year graduate program. In addition, there’s continuing education for professionals. There are about 100 students in Texas A&M University’s undergraduate banking program in College Station. Mauldin: Sam Houston State University in Huntsville pioneered banking degree programs in Texas. LI: Is this program unique to Texas Tech, or are there similar programs elsewhere? Bankers and business professors co-wrote the curriculum, and we began screening and interviewing student applicants in fall 2019. They hired me last September once they had secured $10 million, in just nine months (the endowment now exceeds $11 million). With the assistance of Dean Margaret Williams, they formed a steering committee to raise money for an endowment. Two or three years ago, former Tech Regent Scott Dueser, president/CEO of First Financial Bankshares in Abilene, approached finance professor Jeff Mercer, who was then senior associate dean, about manpower issues in the industry. Mauldin: It’s my understanding that it grew out of discussions that started at banking association meetings.
LI: How did the idea to initiate this kind of banking program at Texas Tech come about?
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