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During our first annual NRF Student Association meeting, fellow NRFSA student members and professors from 13 universities across the nation gathered to share their experiences and inform each other on what their chapters have been up to since joining the association. After a brief overview of a progress report on a 2011 student faculty survey consisting of statistics of [...]

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For any student, the greatest reward for academic study is to apply knowledge from the classroom to the hustle and bustle of the real world. At NRF’s BIG Show, students and employers engaged in a conversation about retail internships, in the “Lessons Learned from Internship Challenges and Triumphs” session. Looking back on their summer internships, NRFSA members [...]

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There are nearly 100 college students in attendance at NRF’s Annual Convention in New York City. We’ve enlisted a few of them to help us recap the educational sessions, share convention experiences, and provide a glimpse of the conference from a student’s (and future retailer’s!) perspective. We’re thrilled to introduce the following students, who you’ll [...]

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The Center for Retail Studies at Texas A&M University was started in the early 1980′s, and has since prepared thousands of students for professional careers in retailing. The Center recently joined NRF Foundation’s community of College Partners, so we connected with Kelli Hollinger, the center’s assistant director, to discuss retailing as a career, share advice [...]

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Last week, NRF Foundation announced the launch of the National Retail Federation Student Association (NRFSA). The vision of the NRFSA is to foster and recruit talented students into the retailing industry, enhance their educational experience and help them build an early network of peers who will become leaders within the industry. “NRF’s Student Association will [...]

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