Student
business organization earns national honor
Shippensburg University’s student chapter of the Society for
Human Resource Management (SHRM) has earned a Superior Merit Award
from the national organization as recognition of its excellence and achievement during the 2011-2012 year.
It is the
fourth consecutive year the chapter has earned this prestigious award and the chapter will
be recognized at the 2012 Annual Student Conference in Atlanta June 23.
Dr.
John G. Kooti, dean of the John L. Grove College of Business, said, “Chapter officers
and members participated in and coordinated a variety of professional
development activities throughout the year which enabled the chapter to achieve
the SHRM Superior Merit award. We congratulate our students and their
chapter adviser, Dr. Vicki Taylor, for this significant achievement.”
According to information on
SHRM’s website, the award recognizes student chapters of
SHRM for their exceptional ability in operations, the professional development
of chapter members, promotion of the profession and support of SHRM.
SHRM, according
to its website, is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource
management with more than 250,000 professional and student members in more than
140 countries. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 575 affiliated
professional chapters and more than 450 student chapters within the United
States as well as subsidiary offices in China and India.
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