Mississippi Valley State University - Delvian Yearbook (Itta Bena, MS)

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WABG-TV crew interviews BEEP lecturer and Exxon attorney Spencer.

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and then came BEEP The Division of Business received approval for participation in the Blagk Executive Exchange Program, bringing five visiting professors to lecture in our School of Business during the Spring Semester. The visiting professors lecturing in the 372 Business Law Class were Beverly A. Spencer, attorney at Exxon Company; USA William G. Horne, corporate attorney at McDonald’s Corp.; Charles D. Graig Jr., attorney in the legal department of Bell Telephone Laboratories; John W. Henderson Jr., patent agent at IBM Corp.; and Clarence E. Wilson, an attorney advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The program originated with the realization by educators and other concerned observers that minority students needed wider knowledge about less traditional career fields, up-to-date and continuous information about business techniques and practices, and greater exposure to identifiable role models. BEEP and Valley officials agree that the widening gap between the classroom environment and the real world of work is one of the most pressing problems facing education today. BEEP supplemented the classroom experience and extended into all areas to bridge the gap between study and experience. The program took the subject matter students normally study and added ingredients about actual business practices, trends and policies to bring about a merger between the world of work and college. — BEEP gave industry and government agencies a different and h ighly significant kind of identification of black campuses. It was an opportunity to actively participate in the development of a new generation of manpower resources. Administrative costs of BEEP were covered by a grant from the Ford Foundation and major corporations through the National Urban League, Inc. The program’s objectives and operations are endorsed and co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society, the Urban Affairs Committee of the American Bankers Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Urban Affairs Council. As co-sponsors, these organizations counsel BEEP staff on course content, make research data available, and help locate and recruit potential candidates.

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