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| BATON ROUGE – Carol Carter, an associate director of the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute and instructor in LSU’s Rucks Department of Management, has been nominated for induction into the Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society. The nomination recognizes Carter’s academic and research excellence in the pursuit of a Ph.D. in human resource education. Graduate students with outstanding ability and academic performance who show great potential for future leadership can be nominated by chapter members to join the Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society. Carter has been employed by LSU since August 1999 and previously served as an assistant director for SEI before assuming her current role. As an associate director, Carter assists in the overall strategic management of SEI, including dealing with the institute’s interface with other academic units within the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Carter also directs SEI’s Women in Business program, which is especially tailored to design workshops and seminars specifically structured to address the issues, opportunities and challenges faced by today’s female entrepreneur. In 2007, Carter was awarded the Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award. Carter earned her Master of Science and her Bachelor of Science in Marketing from LSU and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in human resource education. She currently teaches entrepreneurship and also small business management courses. Gamma Sigma Delta began as a professional agricultural fraternity at the Ohio State University in 1905. It exists to promote the advancement of agriculture in all phases, the maintenance and improvement of the relations of agriculture and related sciences to other industries and the recognition of the responsibilities of those engaged in all aspects of agriculture to human kind. The Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute, an integral part of LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, utilizes its various programs – Women in Business, Family Business Forum, Small Business Classroom, Franchise Classroom, Tiger Business Services and the International Franchise Forum – and other means to address the challenges of entrepreneurship and to positively impact students, the regional economy, the state of Louisiana and the nation. A generous donation by LSU alumni Emmet and Toni Stephenson made the continued development of the college’s entrepreneurship institute possible. For more information, visit www.bus.lsu.edu/sei or call 225-578-0313. -30- Wendy Luedtke E. J. Ourso College of Business 225-578-8865 |
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