BTE students awarded scholarships

June 19, 2009

Accounting Technology majors Connie Cassini and Terra Koch have been awarded $1,200 scholarships from the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), Miami Valley Chapter.

Vern Huber of Huber & Dunn CPAs, Hamilton, a part-time Business Technology (BTE) professor, presented the scholarships to the two students June 17 on behalf of the local chapter, which has funded Accounting scholarships for BTE students on Miami’s regional campuses for the last 40 years.

Huber said a newly-trained workforce is needed to help the area business community, and that job opportunities in Accounting are expected to “increase dramatically because most of the current workforce is becoming elderly.”

Miami’s BTE program equips graduates with immediate workforce qualifications, he said. “When they graduate with a two-year associate degree, they are able to immediately apply their skills on the job, and that’s important,” he said. “That’s what businesses need.”

Cassini is a Miami Hamilton student while Koch will be relocating from Miami Middletown to the Oxford campus this fall to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

Miami's BTE Department is chaired by Dr. Ted Light.