April 25, 2010

We expect high media coverage of the college students selected in the National Football League Draft. The first round draft choices might expect to become overnight millionaires.  Yet I do not see even lip-service given in coverage to the international competition of Delta Epsilon Chi (ΔΕΧ ) who portends to be tomorrow’s senior management of America’s Corporations.

“Delta Epsilon Chi's mission is to enhance the co–curricular education of students with interest in marketing, management and entrepreneurship. Delta Epsilon Chi helps students to develop skills and competence for business careers, to build self–esteem, to experience leadership and to practice community service.”

I ran across some ΔΕΧ students in the Louisville, KY airport on their way home from an international competition. I was also in route home after a Trotter Group (African American Columnists) meeting at the University of Louisville. I chatted with one ΔΕΧ young lady who pointed out the students who took first place in their international competition held in Louisville. One student shared a necklace that had the states and a Canadian Providence with ΔΕΧ chapters. The ΔΕΧ students came across as very well mannered and easy to query.

My attention was drawn to the roughly 25 ΔΕΧ members waiting in the US Air ticket line because both males and females were sporting the same Greek letters on their garments? I was wearing my Omega Psi Phi Fraternity hat, so I initially expected female sororities to have a different name from the male fraternities. Nevertheless, I have recounted my own induction into Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society meaning that ΔΕΧ was a business society working toward high scholarship amongst its membership.

What was very disquieting is the United States of America is attempting to come out of Great Depression II yet the media may be ignoring the evolution of tomorrow’s corporate leadership. The media is falling over itself to report on what college students got drafted by the NFL or made his self eligible for the NBA draft.   

Surely, the national media should have greater interest in Delta Epsilon Chi, “More than 14,000 students from 230 college campuses participate in the organization.” The Delta Epsilon Chi students are getting what colleges and universities call a Capstone experience suggesting that they graduate with real world experience. Very few college sports icons will make professional teams; therefore, it is incumbent upon the media to also report on the evolution of tomorrow’s corporate board members.