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Penn College business professor named to accreditation agency board

Terry A. Girdon, professor of business administration/management at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was elected to a three-year term on the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education’s Board of Commissioners.

Girdon will serve as the board’s public member. The board of commissioners is the body responsible for setting accreditation expectations and reviewing the self-study and site-visit reports for purposes of granting accreditation.

The election took place during the IACBE annual conference in San Diego in April.

IACBE is one of three business-degree accrediting bodies for colleges and universities in the United States and throughout the world. The assembly has more than 240 member institutions and has accredited more than 1,000 business and business-related programs in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Central America and South America.

Girdon holds a doctorate from Rutgers University, master’s degrees from St. Lawrence University and Boston University, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware.

To learn more about business management degrees at Penn College, call 570-327-4505 or visit www.pct.edu/business.

For more about the college, which is celebrating its centennial throughout 2014, visit www.pct.edu, email admissions@pct.edu or call toll-free 800-367-9222.

Terry A. Girdon, professor of business administration/management at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Credit: Penn College / Penn StateCreative Commons

Last Updated January 9, 2015

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