REGIONAL CONFERENCE WINNERS

Business students place first at regional conference

Juniors Cindy Deleon (Accounting major), and Lindsey Green (Accounting and Marketing/Entrepreneurship double major), earned top honors in the Student Showcase at the 2022 Region 3 Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs Conference Nov. 4-6 in Asheville, North Carolina.

“Traveling to Asheville and participating in the Student Showcase was an amazing experience that I will never forget,” Cindy said. “From this experience, I was able to strengthen my presentation skills and, most importantly, network with professionals.”

Deleon and Green developed their presentation from the theme "Stronger Together: Creating Collaborative Alliances.”

“They worked very hard on their project, separately and as a team,” said

Dr. Cindi Bearden, Associate Professor of Business and Accountancy. “Cindy and Lindsey gathered their research, conducted interviews of campus personnel, requested written information from others and rehearsed individually and together multiple times.” She said the college, which has had multiple students win or present in past years, once had a team invited to participate at the international conference.

LaGrange College, a member of the council’s southeastern region, competed against institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Bermuda.

Each year, students create a proposed presentation, submit an abstract that is reviewed by the conference committee, and then wait to hear if they have been selected for presentation.

“I think these experiences are excellent opportunities to get students out of the classroom and into a professional setting,” she said. “They have to perform under pressure and present in front of faculty and administrators from many different types and sizes of colleges and universities.”