Student Resources

Resources for UVA Students

Commerce LibGuide: Databases, research tools, and other useful resources related to Commerce, maintained by UVA Library

https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/commerce

Coursera for UVA: free access to UVA content on Coursera

https://online.virginia.edu/coursera-for-uva

LinkedIn Learning: free courses covering many topics

https://www.library.virginia.edu/linkedin-learning/

New York Times: free subscription with @virginia.edu email address

https://news.library.virginia.edu/2021/10/06/library-offers-free-access-to-new-york-times-digital-resource/

UVA Career Center

https://career.virginia.edu/

UVA Entrepreneurship

https://entrepreneurship.virginia.edu/

Virginia Alumni Mentoring: networking between students and alumni

https://alumnimentoring.virginia.edu/v2/

Prospective McIntire Students

Information for Incoming First Years (including when to take COMM 1800)

https://experience.mcintire.virginia.edu/incoming-first-years-this-is-what-you-need-to-know/

McIntire Admissions (including information about advising appointments and drop-in advising hours)

https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/bs-commerce/connect

How to be a Student

Careers

80,000 Hours: "80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems."

https://80000hours.org/

Forage: "Bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual work experience programs that give students a genuine career advantage with the world's top companies"

https://www.theforage.com/

Managing Family Career Expectations

https://bccareercenter.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/managing-family-career-expectations/

Recommended Reading (Books)

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stake are High by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman , Joe Knight, and John Case

Getting Things Done by David Allen

The Essentials of Contemporary Marketing by Mo Willan

The Visual MBA by Jason Barron

Recommended Reading (Blogs, Columns, etc.)

Behavioral Scientist

https://behavioralscientist.org/

Big Think - Business

https://bigthink.com/tag/business/

Harvard Working Knowledge - Business Research for Business Leaders

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/

How to Build a Life (The Atlantic column)

https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/how-build-life/

The Ethicist (The New York Times column)

https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-ethicist

Work and Life (Wall Street Journal column)

https://www.wsj.com/news/author/rachel-feintzeig?mod=nav_top_subsection

Work Friend (The New York Times column)

https://www.nytimes.com/column/work-friend

Recommended Video Resources

Recommended Podcasts

For Parents of College Students