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FSC welcomes Russian business group
Visitors participate in business training program

LAKELAND, Fla. (Sept. 2, 2003) - FSC will host 11 Russian business managers Sept. 15 as part of a month-long productivity enhancement program (PEP) taking place in Lakeland, Sebring and Brandon. The one-day session begins in the President's Dining Room in the Charles T. Thrift, Jr. Building on campus. 

The PEP, operated by the Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI), trains Russian citizens to use the skills and technologies needed to stabilize their economy. CCI has run programs dedicated to economic reform in Russia since 1983, with the help of American volunteers, foundations, USAID, and the U.S. State Department. Russian participants also share the program costs. 

The Lakeland visit is sponsored by Lakeland South Rotary Club and coordinated by Dr. Ed Jeffries, Rotary Club member and retired FSC physical education professor. Following invocation and breakfast at 7:30 a.m., introductions begin at 8:15 a.m. by Dr. Thomas Reuschling, FSC president; Buddy Fletcher, Lakeland mayor; Dr. Susan Conner, FSC vice president and academic dean; Kathleen Munson, Lakeland Chamber of Commerce president; Howard Wiggs, Lakeland city commissioner; and Shari Szabo, FSC alumni relations director. 

Business administration faculty Dr. Lawrence E. Ross, Professors Walter J. Coleman and Duane L. Hopkins, and Dr. Lynn H. Clements will present lectures. The events for the day are as follows.

8:15 a.m. Introductions

8:30 a.m. Lecture - Dr. Ross
Topic: Marketing Fundamentals for Accounting Practices

10 a.m. Lecture - Professors Coleman and Hopkins
Topic: Management Techniques for Accounting Firms

Noon Lunch in FSC cafeteria

1 p.m. Tour of Florida Southern College - Shari Szabo

2 p.m. Lecture - Dr. Clements
Topic: Economics in a Free Enterprise Society

3:45 p.m. Brainstorming - Roux Library

5 p.m. Leave for dinner at Barnhill's Restaurant

For further information about the event, please contact Jeffries at 646-0811 or email at ejeffries@flsouthern.edu.  

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. 

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