21 August 1996 Silver Jubilee of Commerce degrees

Twenty-five years of offering Commerce degrees will be celebrated by Lincoln University over 18-19 October with a symposium entitled 'Business Beyond 2000' at which an array of national and international speakers, including former Prime Minister David Lange, will speak.

The first Lincoln Commerce degree offered was the Bachelor of Agricultural Commerce, with the initial intake of 129 starting in 1971. Today Lincoln offers nine different applied B.Com. degrees (Agricultural, Horticultural, Valuation & Property Management, Tourism, Transport, Forestry, Applied Computing, Manufacturing & Technology Management and Hotel & Institutional Management) plus a Bachelor of Commerce and Management degree with seven major streams within it (Accounting, Applied Computing, Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, Financial Management and Urban Property).

The two days of celebrations in October will open with a time for the Commerce faculty members themselves to reflect on what has been achieved over the past 25 years and hear from a range of speakers on topics they (the staff) have chosen themselves. A dinner for Commerce staff will be held on the evening of the first day.

The second day will be a public occasion to which past Commerce graduates as well as members of the Christchurch and wider New Zealand business community have been invited.

The line-up of speakers includes Dr Michael Common from the Australian National University, Professor Neil Kay, University of Strathclyde, Professor Steve Sonka, University of Illinois, Michael Hannah of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. David Lange, Dr Murray Horn, Secretary of the Treasury and Grant Rawstron, Christchurch businessman and NZ Meat Board member.

The second day coincides with the Spring Dinner of the Lincoln Alumni Association at which the guest speaker will be the Auckland Central candidate for ACT in the coming General Election, Rodney Hide, himself a former Lincoln Commerce faculty staff member.

For further information about the Commerce Silver Jubilee celebrations the contact is Errol Costello, Centre for Continuing Education, Lincoln University.

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