Business honor society forms at BC3
Butler County Community College will induct its first members April 10 into an international honor society for business students who have outstanding academic credentials.
More than 70 students pursuing an associate degree among BC3’s 15 career and transfer programs in business are eligible for induction into Delta Theta, BC3’s chapter of the international honor society affiliated with the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, said Ramin Hajave, BC3 instructor and Kappa Beta Delta faculty adviser.
BC3’s business programs are nationally accredited by the council.
Students must have a grade-point average of 3.5 or greater, have completed at least 15 credit hours in BC3’s business division and must currently be enrolled at BC3 to be eligible for membership in the society.
“Kappa Beta Delta allows me to recognize students for their academic excellence,” Hajave said, “and their hard work.”
Any opportunity to laud exceptional BC3 students is exciting, said Christian Ola, dean of BC3’s business division.
“But to be able to recognize those students by integrating an international honor society into our already outstanding curriculums provides evidence of consistently doing the right thing for our students,” Ola said.
Thomas Crowley, managing director of Key Bank’s Western Pennsylvania Private Bank, will be the keynote speaker at the induction ceremony, set at 6:30 p.m. in Founders Hall on BC3’s main campus.
BC3 offers career programs within its business division that enable students to develop skills needed to enter the workforce immediately after graduation.
Those programs are in accounting, business management, computer information systems-computer forensics and security, computer information systems-computer support specialist, computer information systems-network administration, computer information systems-programming specialist, computer information systems-website development specialist, hospitality management, human resource management, marketing management, office administration-executive, office administration-medical and technical trades-cosmetology management option.
BC3 also offers transfer programs within its business division in business administration and in computer science.
Business administration and business management are among the top five most popular associate degree programs at BC3, according to Sharla Anke, BC3’s assistant dean of institutional research.
The attraction of BC3’s business division, Hajave said, is “due to ever-changing, and adapting to, job market demand. Credit goes to all the faculty for their outward thinking and changing the majors to fit the demand of the job market and giving the students the best opportunity to succeed.”
Kappa Beta Delta has 14,000 members and is represented on 1,000 campuses, said Sherry Williams, senior coordinator of administration of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, Overland Park, Kan.
