Honoring top students Photos (left to right, top to bottom): 1) Dean Shane Hunt 2) MBA student, Megan Busz
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This April, the College of
“The College of Business wanted to create
a minimum of a 3.25 GPA for graduate
Business held its inaugural
an event that would recognize students
students. Students would have also had to
Circle of Excellence event
going above and beyond,” said Finance
complete a minimum of 30 credit hours at
designed to honor and
major and Student Body President Zane
Idaho State. The criteria led to invitations
celebrate the successes
Webb, who initiated the idea. “We wanted
being sent out to the top 10 sophomores,
of its top tier students at
to give them the opportunity to celebrate
top 20 juniors, top 20 seniors and the top
each class level. A total of
their
10 graduate students.
117 students were invited
College of Business donors and business
“We also extended invitations to club
to attend the event at
leaders.”
leaders, as well as students that had
the L.E. and Thelma E.
Students also needed to have completed
been nominated by faculty, including
Stephens Performing Arts
a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average
freshmen,” said Webb. “We decided to
Center.
(GPA) for undergraduate students and
include a small number of nominations
achievements
with
their
peers,
