Top Business Student Joan Curran Darkortey inducted into prestigious International Business Honor Society
Staff Writer
Cleveland, Ohio—The Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter at the Monte Ahuja College of Business at Cleveland State University inducted Joan Curran Darkortey into the prestigious international business honor society on April 11, 2014.
Curran Darkortey will receive an Executive Master of Business Administration degree with honors, graduating magna cum laude from Cleveland State University during the spring commencement exercises on May 10, 2014 at the Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Convocation Center.
In recognition of her exceptional academic achievements and scholarship, Curran Darkortey has earned a lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, which is reserved for the top 10 percent of baccalaureate, and top 20 percent of graduate students at schools accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools in Business (AACSB International). Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International.
Joan Curran Darkortey was also the sole recipient of the Graduate College of Business 2013 Nance Endowed Academic Scholarship for leadership and commitment to academic scholarship, following a rigorous and highly competitive vetting process.
“As a woman who has worn many hats over the past two years of my program – wife, mother of a two-year old son, full-time worker and full-time student, I feel blessed that my hard work and persistence has paid off. I am deeply honored to receive such amazing recognition and plan to use the skills I have acquired to make a difference in the business world” Curran Darkortey stated.
Joan Curran Darkortey is employed with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and has continued to passionately serve her community as a philanthropist, even during the course of her rigorous Executive MBA program. She is Chief Operating Officer & Interim Board Chair of the Liberia Economic Development Initiative (LEDI), a Cleveland-based nonprofit with an international focus to economically empower the impoverished people of the Republic of Liberia.
Joan Curran Darkortey also holds a degree in Paralegal Studies from Clayton State University 2005, and a B.A. political science degree from Emory University, 2002.
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