Local chapter attends annual Beta Alpha Psi event in Milwaukee
Senior lecturer Trish Keeper and MPA student Donna Yang represented the Victoria University chapter of Beta Alpha Psi at the 2015 annual meeting held recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Victoria chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) was represented at the 2015 annual meeting held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was attended by over 1000 students from BAP chapters in the United States and Australasia.
BAP is an honours society for accounting, finance, and information systems students, and the Victoria Chapter was installed as the 308th chapter of this international organisation in March 2015.
Representing the local chapter were Donna Yang, a final year Master of Professional Accounting student and a member of the 2015 BAP executive, and Trish Keeper (faculty advisor) who is a senior lecturer from the School of Accounting and Commercial Law.
Donna participated in the "Project Run With It" competition at the annual meeting, which required BAP students from 72 chapters, in groups of four, to engage in a real-world consulting project for a not-for-profit organisation located in the greater Milwaukee area.
Working with three American students to advise the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation on feedback and funding issues, Donna commented that it was "an intense and challenging competition".
One aspect of BAP is community service, and Trish Keeper participated in the BAP International Day of Literacy project that involved visiting local Milwaukee schools to distribute books and teach the importance of literacy in our lives.