Barbara Beadle, Homecoming 2007

barbara beadle, '65, '72


state-level purpose

A specialist in business, marketing, information technology, and co-operative education, Beadle formerly served as state program specialist for the Indiana Department of Education. She is currently an independent education consultant with Cengage Learning, Business Professionals of America (BPA) and DECA. She was selected as a 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. She earned her bachelor's in 1965 and master's in 1972 from Indiana State University.

giving back comes naturally

Beadle is active in numerous local, state, regional and national professional organizations and was a 2001 recipient of the Indiana Association for Career and Technical Education’s Professional Educator of the Year Award, the National Association of Supervisors of Business Education Outstanding Leadership Award and the North-Central Business Education Association’s Outstanding Service Award for the administrator division.

Beadle served on the advisory committees for ISU’s marketing and business education programs and was involved on a committee that began the organization of personal finance standards for ISU’s Networks Financial Institute. She worked with Kelly Wilkinson, associate professor of business education, on a new vocational business endorsement currently being offered at ISU, in addition to presenting at the school’s Business Education Clinic on numerous occasions during the past 16 years.

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