LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Seven Rider University business students have received CREW certificates for having met the skillbuilding requirements in the area of management interaction skills.

CREW is an innovative program in the College of Business Administration (CBA) designed to build and refine students' interpersonal, management, and leadership skills. Each CREW is a group of students led by specially-trained faculty member.

The seven students are (with hometown, class year, and major):

As a member of a CREW, students use role-playing and videotaping to examine and critique their own performance and those of others. It also provides students the opportunity to learn to work in teams, handle conflicts, develop interviewing skills, and to interact with corporate leaders and business practitioners.

Dr. Dorothy McMullen, associate professor of accounting and the group's advisor, and Dr. Mark Sandberg, CBA dean, presented this year's CREW certificates.

Rider University is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian institution with a 353-acre campus in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and a 23-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The University offers 58 undergraduate programs and 17 graduate programs in the Colleges of Business Administration; Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; Continuing Studies; and Westminster Choir College. Ninety-three percent of Rider's faculty members hold doctoral or other appropriate advanced degrees.