NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) –The College of Business at Tennessee State University holds an Honors and Awards Day Program on Friday, April 25 at the Avon Williams Campus beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Auditorium Atrium.

The College will recognize outstanding students who have demonstrated academic excellence with the presentation of numerous scholarships and awards. Graduating students will also be recognized for their hard work, dedication and persistence displayed to reach this milestone in their collegiate career. Outstanding faculty members will also be recognized.

“This event is a celebration of excellence designed to recognize outstanding business students who exemplify stellar academic achievement, who know the importance of community service as demonstrated by their active-service endeavors, and who exhibit exemplary leadership and social involvement,” said Dr. Millicent Lownes-Jackson, dean of the College of Business. “This prestigious and signature event is also the time that the College acknowledges its donors whose generous financial contributions make monetary academic awards for students possible.”

TSU’s College of Business was the first business school in Nashville to earn dual accreditation from the most prestigious accrediting body for business schools in the world, AACSB-International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.  During this year’s Honors and Awards Day, 15 students will also be inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society established for accredited AACSB institutions. Students ranking in the top 10 percent of the baccalaureate and top 20 percent of graduate programs at schools accredited by AACSB International–The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business are eligible for this invitation.

For more information, contact Juandale Cooper, director of Public Service, at 615.963.7369.

 

 

 

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