Indiana Tech’s SHRM chapter earns prestigious honor

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest HR professional society representing 340,000 members in 180 countries, honored Indiana Tech’s SHRM student chapter with a 2023-24 Superior Merit Award.

The annual Superior Merit Award program recognizes chapters for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student chapter members. It began in 1972 to encourage student chapters to require ongoing excellence in the following areas:

• Student chapter requirements
• Chapter operations
• Chapter programming and professional development of members
• Support of the human resource profession
• SHRM engagement

“This award is a tremendous accomplishment for Indiana Tech, the College of Business and our human resource program,” said Dr. Angie Fincannon, dean of the university’s College of Business. “The ongoing hard work of integrating SHRM principles in our HR programming is a point of distinction and it reinforces our College of Business’ vision of preparing and producing the top business graduates in northeast Indiana and beyond.”

Indiana Tech’s student SHRM chapter, which is the largest student organization on campus, has earned a Superior Merit Award every year since 1998. The university’s HR degree program has an outstanding reputation for cultivating exceptional human resource professionals and launching successful careers. It has helped more than 500 Indiana Tech students pass the SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) exam—a competency-based certification exam that measures one’s ability to apply HR principles to real-life situations.