Monday, December 14, 2015
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Youngstown State University’s business honor society, Beta Gamma Sigma, has earned highest honors on the Beta Gamma Sigma International Collegiate Chapter Honor Roll.
The YSU chapter earned the recognition based on the high acceptance rate of invitees. Only the top 10 percent of juniors and seniors and the top 20 percent of MBA students are invited to join. During 2014-15, the YSU BGS chapter inducted 52 new members.
The YSU chapter was among only 53 chapters throughout the world to receive the highest-honors recognition. Schools with highest honors receive one scholarship to send a student member to the Global Leadership Summit in Orlando, Fla., and are eligible to apply for Outstanding Chapter recognition.
Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in an undergraduate or master’s program at a school accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
YSU’s Williamson College of Business Administration received initial accreditation from AACSB in April 2000.
Only 6 percent of business schools worldwide have AACSB accreditation. The BGS chapter at Youngstown State University was installed June 11, 2000.
Student officers of the chapter are Jon Hutnyan of Canfield, president; Bryan Schiraldi of Lowellville, vice president of programming; Kayla Cerimele of Canfield, vice president of membership/public relations; Leah Finnerty of Poland, vice president of alumni relations. William G. Vendemia serves as chapter adviser.
WCBA Dean Betty Jo Licata is the chairwoman of the international board of governors of BGS, which has more than 500 collegiate chapters in all 50 states and in 22 countries.