{"id":9972,"date":"2021-06-30T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2021-06-30T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:46:57","slug":"craig-school-of-business-student-earns-national-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/craig-school-of-business-student-earns-national-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig School of Business student earns national honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9973\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9973\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1-174x310.jpg\" alt=\"Madi Taylor\" width=\"174\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1-174x310.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1-200x356.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1-400x711.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1-600x1067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/06\/Taylor-Madi-2021-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madi Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 30, 2021&#8211;A student in the Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University was recently honored for her public speaking skills during the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference. Madi Taylor, a sophomore finance major from Brookfield, Missouri, earned fifth place in the Collegiate Division Public Speaking contest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTaylor participated in FBLA all four years of high school and joined PBL her first semester at Missouri Western.\u00a0 We are excited and proud to have her representing the University,\u201d said Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development and Phi Beta Lambda adviser.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FBLA-PBL National Leadership Conference was held online June 26 and 27. The event connected more than 12,000 participants from middle school, high school and collegiate levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About FBLA-PBL<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) student business organization with more than 230,000 members and advisers in 12,000 middle schools, high schools, and colleges worldwide. FBLA-PBL\u2019s mission is to inspire and prepare students to become community-minded business leaders in a global society through relevant career preparation and leadership experiences. The association is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. For more information, visit fbla-pbl.org.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>About Missouri Western<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 30, 2021&#8211;A student in the Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University was recently honored for her public speaking skills during the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference. Madi Taylor, a sophomore finance major from Brookfield, Missouri, earned fifth place in the Collegiate Division Public Speaking contest.\u00a0 \u201cTaylor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9975,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}