{"id":2684,"date":"2015-11-17T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:51:49","slug":"coba-student-hayley-griffin-receives-hr-southwest-conference-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2015\/11\/17\/coba-student-hayley-griffin-receives-hr-southwest-conference-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"COBA Student Hayley Griffin Receives HR Southwest Conference Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior management major, Hayley Griffin, was honored at the HR Southwest Conference (HRSWC) on October 26th, as she was one of four students who received The Excellence in Education Student Scholarship. Recipients of this scholarship are chosen based upon their academic standing, involvement in their community and campus, and by recommendations of their professors, advisors and\/or employers.<\/p>\n

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Hayley Griffin<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Malcolm Coco, professor and SHRM Student Chapter Advisor, nominated Hayley for the scholarship. Dr. Coco said that Hayley has proven to be an outstanding employee, currently working in the ACU HR department and as a student assistant to the COBA marketing and recruiting manager. He touted Hayley\u2019s intelligence, personable demeanor, abilities, accomplishments and work ethic. As the current president of the SHRM student chapter, he said that Hayley has shown initiative and leadership as she attends professional chapter meetings and has supported the chapter\u2019s request for student chapter involvement in joint activities and research. Hayley is also treasurer of the women\u2019s social club Sigma Theta Chi, a member of Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and is on the Dean\u2019s Honor Roll.<\/p>\n

Dr. Coco went on to say that, \u201cWhether she is performing volunteer work for Meals on Wheels, Habitat for Humanity or volunteer tutoring for an elementary school, she is always totally engaged. The bottom line is that Hayley continues to excel in every aspect of her life and has demonstrated superb initiative and leadership. She is the epitome of an all-around outstanding person. Whether it is academics, service to the community, involvement in campus activities, she is always leading the way. She is a top drawer person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hayley receiving The Excellence in Education Scholarship<\/p><\/div>\n

The HRSWC is a regional human resources conference held in Fort Worth every October. The conference is a 3 day event filled with educational sessions, keynote speakers, and networking opportunities. The educational sessions focus on 8 different areas in HR ranging from benefits to HR development to recruiting the best talent. This year the keynote speakers were David Pogue, the founder of Yahoo Tech, and Soledad O’Brien, the founder of Starfish Media Group.<\/p>\n

As a student attending HRSWC, Hayley said, \u201cThere are so many outstanding networking opportunities to grow your professional network. There is a market place in the convention center that over 200 companies set up booths to tell people about their company and solutions, so it’s almost like networking heaven! There are some educational sessions geared towards students and how to go about the internship\/job search, how to network, and how to get the most out of the conference. This year my favorite session was titled \u2018Essential Global Recognition and Engagement Insights\u2019. The speaker presented research that was conducted on different companies across the global market and the differences in how incentive pay and culture are linked. For example, in Brazil, employees expect to be recognized differently than here in the US, in India, or in the UK. It was interesting to hear about cultural differences like this and I am looking forward to being able to use what I learned not only from this session, but the entire conference, into my future career.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Society for Human Resource Management student chapter is sponsored by the local professional human resources chapter. There are 27 professional and student chapters in the state of Texas. The Big Country SHRM is ACU\u2019s sponsoring chapter and provides all types of support for the student chapter. Student officers are part of the professional chapter\u2019s executive committee and regularly attend monthly meetings. The student chapter members are also invited to attend each month\u2019s chapter meeting to hear the presentation for that month. The Big Country SHRM also supports the students by offering scholarships for attending the state SHRM annual conference and the student leadership conference. The student chapter provides support for the professional chapter by conducting surveys to gather information from its members and provides support for professional chapter activities.<\/p>\n

The student chapter is one of 27 in the state of Texas and over 400 nationally. Over 10,000 students belong to SHRM student chapters. Each student must be chartered and sponsored by a professional chapter. ACU\u2019s chapter is sponsored by the Big Country SHRM professional chapter. The Society of Human Resource Management is the world\u2019s largest association devoted to human resource management. The society serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 225,000 members in over 125 countries, and more than 575 affiliated chapters. Visit shrm.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senior management major, Hayley Griffin, was honored at the HR Southwest Conference (HRSWC) on October 26th, as she was one of four students who received The Excellence in Education Student Scholarship. Recipients of this scholarship are chosen based upon their academic standing, involvement in their community and campus, and by recommendations of their professors, advisors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,2838,6633,2758,2750,154271,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-coba-alumni","category-coba-faculty","category-college-decisions","category-current-students","category-human-resource-management","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}