Lee University Wins Better Business Bureau Award
Cleveland, TN–Lee University recently received a Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Serving Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia.
The Torch Awards are given to companies, both for-profit and nonprofit, to bestow public recognition on businesses and organizations that maintain a solid commitment to conducting their business practices in an ethical fashion. This year, Lee won the award for the “Nonprofit” category alongside a charity non-profit winner and four other business winners from the community.
The Torch Awards are designed to promote not only the importance of ethical business practices, but the willingness and efforts made by outstanding businesses to ensure that the marketplace remains fair and honorable. To receive a Torch Award, a business must first be nominated by a sponsor and then submit an extensive application detailing the organization’s ethical standards, decision-making strategies, marketing practices, history, and community service. Winners are chosen by a panel of judges composed of prominent businesspeople and community educators.
At the meeting, the BBB also awarded 10 Student of Integrity scholarships to local high school seniors.
“Individually, the business winners and the student winners are exemplary representatives of ethics and integrity in our marketplace,” said Jim Winsett, president and CEO of the Southeast TN and Northwest GA BBB.
Brian Conn, Director of Public Relations at Lee, accepted the award on behalf of the university at the annual meeting in Chattanooga last month.
“It’s a great personal honor for me to be able to come represent the 700 people at Lee who work hard to build trust in the community in the business that we do,” said Conn.
The mission of the BBB is to promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.
(Source: Lee University Public Relations)
