Business Administration: Banking & Financing
School of Business & Computer Technologies
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E257 · (570) 327-4517
Many of our students are placed into co-ops with regional financial institutions, significantly increasing the students' marketability upon graduation. Students seeking a position directly or indirectly in finance should consider this program, given the need for specialist and non-specialist managers who have a solid understanding of finance.
Professionals already working in the area of finance, but seeking a degree from an accredited institution, can apply coursework as continuing education credits from the state to satisfy licensure requirements.
Students completing the program are strongly encouraged to take the Series 6 and 63 securities license exams. Students are encouraged to use electives to complete courses leading to the Financial Planning minor and become eligible to sit for the CFP certification examination.
Business Administration News
Penn College Business Students Tour New York Stock Exchange
April 2008
Fifteen Penn College students recently received the requisite security clearance to tour the New York Stock Exchange, an almost-unheard-of consideration amid ongoing and intensive national vigilance. “The students conducted themselves to the highest professional standard and demonstrated their knowledge of markets and business in general. I was very impressed," said Roy A. Fletcher, assistant professor of business administration/banking and finance. Continue to story
Penn College Management Professor Re-Elected as Board Chairman
April 2008
Terry A. Girdon
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Terry A. Girdon, head of the business administration department at Penn College, has been elected to a third term as chair of the Board of Commissioners of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education. The re-election of Girdon, a professor of business administration/management in the college’s School of Business and Computer Technologies, occurred during the IACBE’s annual conference in Newport Beach, Calif., April 1-4. 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. Continue to story
Business Faculty Member Finalist for International Teaching Honor
April 2008
Irwin H. Siegel
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A faculty member in Penn College's School of Business and Computer Technologies has been selected as a regional recipient of the 2008 Teaching Excellence Award from the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. The honor puts Irwin H. Siegel – professor of business administration/business law and recipient of Penn College's 2005 Master Teacher Award – in the running for an international award at the association’s June 20-23 conference in New Orleans. Continue to story
Penn College Students Survey Manufacturers’ Use of Technology
March 2008
A group of Penn College students recently surveyed area manufacturers about their use of technology, coming away with a heightened appreciation of the region’s industrial assets – and the challenges that face those doing business in Central Pennsylvania.
Three of them – Melissa A. Miller, a technology management major from Montoursville; Joseph R. Raup, of Trout Run, enrolled in business administration: small business and entrepreneurship; and Mahdi E. Shaji, of Turnersville, N.J. , also majoring in technology management – presented their findings Wednesday during a “Regional Technology Snapshot” event at Lycoming College. Continue to story
Professors Present Paper to Fellow Economics Educators
February 2008
Gerald D. 'Chip' Baumgardner
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Abdul B. Pathan
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Two faculty members at Penn College presented a paper at the Teaching Economics: Instruction and Classroom-Based Research conference held Feb. 14-16 at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh. Gerald D. “Chip” Baumgardner, associate professor of business administration, and Abdul B. Pathan, professor of economics, presented a paper titled “Industry Structure: Teaching Via Cooperative Learning in an Online Environment” that also will be published in the conference proceedings. Continue to story
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