this interdisciplinary program empowers students to create their own event management pathway.  the core program focuses on event ideation, program design, technology, execution management, budgeting, and community engagement and is experientially based with both in-class and off-campus learning. students are provided with opportunities to work with community businesses to experience the challenges of event implementation. curriculum is designed to support the meeting planner international (mpi) standards with courses that focus on the meeting and business event competency standards industry subsets.