Tri-State University business major Connie Disbro has earned the first-ever Balwant Singh Award from Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society in Business Administration for the TSU chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).

Disbro was among a group of outstanding students of business administration selected annually for the award. She received a certificate naming her a 2007 Delta Mu Delta Scholar and a $1,000 scholarship to use for her education.

She has completed two summer internships with Artistic Carton in Auburn, Ind., working in accounting with payable and receivable accounts and their monthly reconciliation. The daughter of Timothy and Peggy Disbro of Edon, Ohio, she is working toward a double major in accounting and finance and a minor in economics, and has achieved a GPA of 3.923 on a 4.0 scale.

Disbro was among 20 TSU SIFE members to take community projects to SIFE regional competition March 19 in Chicago, Ill., where they earned third place. Projects included teaching financial literacy to Ryan Park Elementary School fourth-graders in Angola, teaching international trade to a fifth-grade class at Carlin Park Elementary School in Angola, and helping to develop a business plan for Angola business owner Gracia Wilson.

SIFE is a non-profit organization that gives students the tools to learn the free enterprise system in a real working situation. Students on over 800 college campuses nationwide participate in SIFE, and TSU entrepreneurship majors take SIFE for one hour of course credit.