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Andrew Hicks
  • Accounting
  • Junction City, KY

Andrew Hicks Inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta

2013 May 7

Andrew Hicks of Junction City (40440) is one of 14 Eastern Kentucky University business students who were inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society during a special ceremony on April 23.

Business seniors representing the top 10 percent of their graduating class, master's degree students representing the top 20 percent of their graduating class and juniors representing the top 7 percent of their class were invited into membership in formal tapping ceremonies.

Hicks is a junior majoring in Accounting at EKU.

Also recognized during the ceremony was Fall 2012 inductee Shelby Howell, a junior accounting and finance major from Berea, Ky., who was awarded a $1,000 scholarship as the junior Beta Gamma Sigma member with highest GPA.

Founded as a national organization in 1913, the first national honor society in business was a merger of three separate societies established to honor academic achievement in business at the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois and the University of California.

Today, Beta Gamma Sigma is an international honor society that provides the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in an undergraduate or master's program at a school accredited by AACSB International. With the global expansion of accreditation by AACSB International, membership is no longer limited to those who have studied in the U.S. or Canada.

The mission and objectives of Beta Gamma Sigma are to encourage and honor academic achievement in the study of business and personal and professional excellence in the practice of business; to foster an enduring commitment to the founding principles and values of honor and integrity; to encourage the pursuit of wisdom and earnestness; to support the advancement of business through and to encourage lifelong learning; and to enhance the value of Beta Gamma Sigma for student and alumni members in their professional lives.

Currently more than 500,000 individuals have accepted membership in Beta Gamma Sigma. They occupy key management and leadership positions in a variety of industries around the world. For more information on the honor society of Beta Gamma Sigma, visit www.betagammasigma.org.