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By Jill Yesko, University Relations
Contact (336) 334-3890
Posted:3-31-08
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Beta Gamma Sigma, the Phi Beta Kappa for business schools, will induct new members on Monday, April 7.
J. Edward Kitchen, vice president of the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation will be inducted as an honorary member of Beta Gamma Sigma. The ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. in the EUC auditorium.
A civic leader in Greensboro, Kitchen was formerly city manager, deputy city manager, assistant city manager and personnel director, all for the city of Greensboro. He serves as board chair for Gateway University Research Park, a joint project of UNCG and N.C. A&T State University that will create $50 million annual economic impact in the Triad.
Kitchen serves on numerous organizations and boards, including the Greensboro Economic Development Partnership where he chaired the 2006 Strategic Plan, Action Greensboro and the NC City/County Management Association where he is an honorary life member. Kitchen was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest civilian honor in North Carolina.
Founded in 1913, Beta Gamma Sigma is the honor society serving business programs accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International.
Each year, collegiate Beta Gamma Sigma chapters extend invitations to the top seven percent of business juniors, the upper 10 percent of business seniors and the highest 20 percent of business graduate students.
The Beta Gamma Sigma chapter at the Bryan School of Business and Economics is a premier chapter. Chapters granted premier status have had at least 85 percent of their invitations accepted by their top undergraduate and graduate students.
With premier status, UNCG is eligible to award a $1,000 Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship in the 2007-08 academic year. The chapter is also pre-qualified for consideration as an outstanding chapter, the highest honor attainable by a collegiate chapter.
UNCG has been selected as a premier chapter every year since 1996.
Contact the Bryan School at (336) 334-5338, or visit bryanschool.uncg.edu.
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