Brittany Stroop Inducted into International Honor Society for Business, Management, and Administration

2013 May 22

Brittany Stroop of Staunton was inducted into the Mary Baldwin College chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, chartered in 2009 to encourage and recognize scholarship and achievement among students of business, management, administration, and marketing communication. The international honor society, established in 1994, encourages and promotes personal and professional improvement, and a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind.

Invitation for membership in Sigma Beta Delta is the highest national recognition a business student can receive at a college or university with a chapter. To be eligible for membership, a business student must rank in the upper 20 percent of the junior or senior class, maintain a minimum 3.5 GPA, and be invited to membership by the faculty officers.

Founded in 1842, Mary Baldwin College is a diverse institution that transforms lives through personalized education, innovatively integrating liberal arts, experiential learning, civic engagement, and global citizenship. At the undergraduate level, the College for Women serves about 850 students on the historic main campus in downtown Staunton, Virginia, and the Adult Degree Program serves both men and women on campus and at regional centers throughout Virginia. A top-ranked master's level university, MBC also offers co-educational graduate programs in teacher education and Shakespeare and Performance. U.S. News & World Report named MBC a top-tier master's university in the South and Washington Monthly ranked the college No. 8 among all master's level universities in the country.