Beta Gamma Sigma awards scholarship to Rowan business student
Beta Gamma Sigma awards scholarship to Rowan business student
May 31, 2007
International business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma has awarded
Rowan University rising senior Jennifer Yaeger, a business
administration major with a specialization in finance and a minor
in economics, a $500 scholarship, which Rowan's Rohrer College of
Business is matching.
Yaeger, of Middletown and a graduate of Middletown High School North, is a member of Rowan's Beta Gamma Sigma chapter, for which she is serving as second vice president. A dean's list student currently interning with First Investors Corporation, located in Woodbridge, she also is/has been vice president of Rowan's Financial Management Association and president of its Society for Advancement Management. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and the Mortar Board National Honor Society. A Rohrer College of Business Dean's List student, she was the recipient of the 2007 Volunteer Income Tax Assistant Scholarship and Calabrese Family College of Business Scholarship. She presented a paper she co-authored, "Ethics in the Corporate World," at the 2007 Society for Advancement of Management International Business Conference in March in Las Vegas.
She is the daughter of Tracey and Jeff Yaeger.
Beta Gamma Sigma is an honor society serving business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Rowan earned accreditation in 2002. 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. The mission of Beta Gamma Sigma is to encourage and honor academic achievement in the study of business and to foster personal and professional excellence among its members, according to the organization. To be eligible for membership, the academic ranking of those being considered must place them in the upper 10 percent of their junior or senior class, or upper 20 percent of the graduating master's class. Members inducted each year join an expanding worldwide network of more than 560,000 business professionals, according to the organization. Since 1988, the 94-year-old society and its member deans have awarded more than $1.2 million in scholarships to outstanding student members from around the world.
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Yaeger, of Middletown and a graduate of Middletown High School North, is a member of Rowan's Beta Gamma Sigma chapter, for which she is serving as second vice president. A dean's list student currently interning with First Investors Corporation, located in Woodbridge, she also is/has been vice president of Rowan's Financial Management Association and president of its Society for Advancement Management. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and the Mortar Board National Honor Society. A Rohrer College of Business Dean's List student, she was the recipient of the 2007 Volunteer Income Tax Assistant Scholarship and Calabrese Family College of Business Scholarship. She presented a paper she co-authored, "Ethics in the Corporate World," at the 2007 Society for Advancement of Management International Business Conference in March in Las Vegas.
She is the daughter of Tracey and Jeff Yaeger.
Beta Gamma Sigma is an honor society serving business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Rowan earned accreditation in 2002. 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. The mission of Beta Gamma Sigma is to encourage and honor academic achievement in the study of business and to foster personal and professional excellence among its members, according to the organization. To be eligible for membership, the academic ranking of those being considered must place them in the upper 10 percent of their junior or senior class, or upper 20 percent of the graduating master's class. Members inducted each year join an expanding worldwide network of more than 560,000 business professionals, according to the organization. Since 1988, the 94-year-old society and its member deans have awarded more than $1.2 million in scholarships to outstanding student members from around the world.
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