Marketing Association for two years and competed in the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Competition. To utilize her emphasis in marketing, she also works for the college in collaboration with NMSU’s Marketing and Communications office to manage its social media platforms. “The faculty and staff members go above and beyond to be accessible not just in the classroom, but for outside mentorship and encouragement to help students,” Hendricks said. “For me, the close-knit relationships that I have made within the college has been a tremendous blessing and continues to help guide me with my college journey.” After college, Hendricks hopes to travel, volunteer for different causes, freelance with her digital marketing skills to work for both small and large companies and pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. She also dreams of pursuing her minor in dance by working for a nonprofit dance program. Bailey Perkins The ideal day for Bailey Perkins involves nothing more than working with numbers, spreadsheets and contracts – which are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to Perkins, who came to NMSU in 2019 to study finance in the College of Business. “I truly enjoy and love working with finance and accounting and doing all of the numbers for Excel and spreadsheeting,” Perkins said. “I know a lot of people that hate it, but my dream day is getting to spend hours on Excel.” Originally from Farmington, New Mexico, Perkins channeled those interests into school and earned a bachelor’s degree in finance in May 2023. Soon after, she began working as a financial specialist for NMSU’s Division of Student Success, a role in which she helps oversee finances for the Department of Student Life. She Hannah Hendricks As a third-year NMSU College of Business student, Hannah Hendricks expressed her gratitude toward the college for its role in her success and goals. “Being a NMSU College of Business student has opened so many doors for me that otherwise I would not have received,” Hendricks said. “The networking experience with my peers as well as professionals in the field has helped prepare me for my career and has helped my professional skills drastically improve. Hendricks is a College of Business student ambassador, has been the vice president of philanthropy for the NMSU American also started a master’s program in business administration with a concentration in finance. For Perkins, it was an easy decision to stay at NMSU for graduate school. “I’ve made a lot of good friends who are still going to school here, so I felt continuing my education here would be a great opportunity to build up the little community that I’d created,” she said. As an undergraduate student, Perkins worked for the Associated Students of NMSU and was a member of NMSU’s Financial Student Association. “At NMSU, I think there’s a very much so a real-world focus that’s in all of my classes that I’ve taken,” she said. Perkins is working to complete her master’s degree by 2025 and may apply to law school afterward. New Mexico State University – College of Business | 2023 Annual Report – The Bottom Line 9 PHOTO BY JOSH BACHMAN
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