By SAMI McGUIRE, Staff Writer
Northwestern’s business department will be awarding scholarships and inducting members at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the Ranger Room.
Delta Mu Delta, sponsored by the business department, will be inducting members into it’s lifetime business honor society. It recognizes and encourages academic excellence. Delta Mu Delta creates a community that fosters the well-being of its individual members and the business community through life-time membership.
Thirteen people from Northwestern will be inducted this year into Delta Mu Delta. There are six junior students being inducted: Brianna Wilhite, Tara Wilson, Rijan Shrestha, Madeline Bonine, Brittani Casement and Precious Okeke. There will also be six senior students inducted: David Lee Young, Aleasha Rowe, Desiree Best, Ramsey Williams, Sarah Dysart and Clinton Muret. The honorary faculty member being inducted is James Bell, associate vice president for academics and dean of faculty.
Wei Zhou, associate professor of economics, is the Mu Xi chapter faculty advisor of Delta Mu Delta. Zhou said “Membership in Delta Mu Delta is the highest national recognition a business student can receive at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.”
Delta Mu Delta has several standards students must surpass to be eligible for a Delta Mu Delta membership. “A business administration or accounting major must rank in the upper 20 percent of the junior or senior class, have a minimum 3.25 GPA and be invited to membership by the faculty,” Zhou said. “To be invited to join as a junior, the student must have completed all program specific general education and Foundation Core classes with a 3.25 GPA or better.
Delta Mu Delta was founded in 1913 by the dean of Harvard University, four professors from Yale University and New York University.