The Eberly College of Business and Information Technology played a key role as a sponsor of the twentieth annual conference of the American Society for Competitiveness (ASC) held in Falls Church, Virginia, from October 29 to 31, 2009. The theme of the conference was “Transformation: Sustaining Competitiveness in an Interdependent World.”

Nearly thirty undergraduate and MBA students, along with three faculty members from the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, visited the Saxonburg manufacturing plant of MEDRAD on November 13, 2009.

The students from the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology had huge success in the recent Common Freshman Reader Essay Contest. There were 250 essay submissions, and of the nine winners, seven were from the Eberly College.

Eleven students from the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology placed second overall in a business competition held at Peoples Educational Society (PES) in Bangalore, India, from October 9 to 11, 2009. IUP students competed against over one thousand students from fifty Indian business schools.