Fort Valley State University News June 15, 2011 FVSU scholars join Emerging Minority Business Leaders Program This summer, Fort Valley State University students Kathy Bailum, Maketa El, Shacoda Forbes, Clariese McQueen and Keyanna Moss are training to become the next generation of economic power players. The five Wildcats are among an elite group of business students from across the nation chosen to participate in West Liberty University's Emerging Minority Business Leaders Program in West Liberty University, West Virginia. In addition to receiving a $1,500 scholarship from the U.S. Department of Commerce, each student will spend two weeks at the university participating in workshops and training sessions to develop the professional and leadership skills needed to succeed in the global marketplace. Dr. Christopher Torrance, FVSU assistant professor of management and faculty advisor, was contacted by EMBL program representatives to tap FVSU's top business students. The students were selected based on academic qualifications, a personal essay and faculty recommendations. Torrance, who worked with the program in previous years, is confident the students will see short and long term benefits during the summer and after they complete the training sessions. View Christopher Torrance on the Emerging Minority Business Leaders program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmCbInwKslI&feature=player_embedded Sophomore Maketa El said she is eager to learn more about emerging economic trends such as the importance of using social networking to grow businesses and hopes to cultivate relationships with professionals and other students in the business field. "I hope to gain a sense of how entrepreneurship and technology work hand in hand in the business world," El said. "I also look forward to working with students from other schools because when you work in groups everyone always has something different to offer." In 1995, EMBL was established to develop and empower students from a wide variety of ethnic, economic and cultural backgrounds to become the next generation of entrepreneurs and technology leaders for the advancement of American society. For more information about additional unique opportunities in FVSU's Department of Business Administration and Economics, please call (478) 825-6270. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.