Business Professor Assumes Chairmanship at Paris Conference

Terry A. Girdon, professor of business administration at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was named chairman of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education's Board of Commissioners during a recent conference in Paris.

Girdon, who heads the business administration department in the college's School of Business and Computer Technologies, was selected during the IACBE's annual conference from Sept. 21-23.

The board is the body responsible for setting accreditation expectations and reviewing the self-study and site-visit reports for purposes of granting accreditation. Following the conference, Girdon remained in Paris to conduct follow-up accreditation site visits to the American Business School and the Paris Graduate School of Management.

The IACBE is one of only three business-degree accrediting bodies for colleges and universities in the United States and throughout the world. It has 227 member institutions and is the fastest-growing business-accrediting body in the world, with branch locations in Geneva, Switzerland; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Mangilao, Guam.

All of Penn College's business and accounting degree programs have been fully accredited by IACBE since 1998.

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