For more information, contact Richard Doty, (937) 775-3232.

January 21, 2005

International business honor society established at WSU’s Raj Soin College of Business

Oded Shenkar, Ph.D., of the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University will be the guest speaker at the 3 p.m. public ceremony in the Rike Hall Lobby on the WSU campus. He is the Ford Motor Company chaired professor of global business management at Fisher and an expert on international business and management.

Raj Soin, Wright State’s college of business benefactor, along with Shenkar and Berkwood Farmer, Ph.D., dean of the college of business, will be inducted as honorary members of the Alpha Chapter at the event.

Alpha Kappa Epsilon, the only international business honor society in the world, is being established to recognize and promote excellence in scholarship, research, professionalism and leadership, said Inder Khera, Ph.D., professor of marketing at the Raj Soin College of Business.

The groundwork to create the society was supported through a Title VI-B Grant awarded to Wright State from the U.S. Department of Education.

Khera has been selected national president of the society. He said the local chapter has extended invitations to qualified junior, senior and graduate students and business faculty at Wright State, plus area international business leaders. He said the honor society will pursue the development of campus chapters at business colleges throughout the country.

Also serving as national officers are Joseph Petrick, Ph.D, national vice president and a WSU professor of management; Robert Scherer, Ph.D., national executive secretary and dean of the Cleveland State College of Business Administration; and Douglas Nord, Ph.D., national treasurer and executive director of the University Center for International Education at Wright State.

For more details on the honor society, visit the Web site http://www.wright.edu/ucie/curriculum/ibhs.html or contact Monica Snow at the Raj Soin College of Business at (937) 775-2151.