deca-

[Greek deka-, from deka, ten.]

DECA is a national student organization for individuals preparing for marketing, management, and entrepreneurship careers. With 180,000 members, DECA serves as the companion to marketing education programs within secondary and post-secondary schools across all fifty states of the United States, its territories, and Canada. As a co-curricular organization, DECA is an integral part of classroom instruction—a vehicle through which students learn marketing and management, and are motivated to succeed.

In partnership with businesses throughout the country, DECA offers learning experiences that contribute to the integration of academic and career-focused instruction, resulting in heightened student achievement and student recognition. For example, each year more than 60,000 student members participate in a competitive events program, culminating in state and national secondary and post-secondary Career Development Conferences that allow members to demonstrate academic and marketing excellence.

Organized in 1946, DECA meets the needs of marketing (then, distributive) education students seeking professional and personal growth. The association is governed by a board of directors. Until July 1991, DECA was referred to as the Distributive Education Clubs of America. Although that continues to be the legal name, the organization uses the commonly recognized acronym, DECA, along with the tag line, An Association of Marketing Students." The official logo of DECA is a diamond, whose four points emphasize civic consciousness, leadership development, vocational understanding, and social intelligence. DECA is advised by a national advisory board, consisting of business representatives, and a congressional advisory board, comprised of federal legislators.

The official publications of DECA are the DECA Advisor, Dimensions, Chi Connection, Highwired. Net, and the DECA Guide. Such scholarships as the Harry A. Applegate, J. C. Penney, and Sears Scholarships are available to support the academic endeavors of members. More information is available from DECA at 1908 Association Dr., Reston, Virginia 20191; (703)860-5000: or http://www.deca.org.

Bibliography

Berns, Robert G. (1996). DECA: A Continuing Tradition of Excellence. Reston, VA: DECA.

Cahill, Julie, and Brady, Kathleen. (1999). "Sweetening the Deal." Techniques, March:26-28.

Distributive Education Clubs of America DECA: An Association of Marketing Students. http://www.deca.org/.1999.

[Article by: JEWEL E. HAIRSTON; ROBERT G. BERNS]

[Etymology: Gk: ‘ten’] E.g. decagon = ten angles (hence ten sides).

(Metric) (now da-, until 1960 D-) The 10 multiplier, e.g. 1 decagram = 1 dag = 10 g; contractable to dec- before a vowel, e.g. decare = 1 daa = 10 a.

Though used extensively in Europe, the decametre, decagram, decalitre, and decare are little recognized, so undesirable elsewhere; among them, only decare is legal in the UK.The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade the bushell, cental, chain, drachm, dram, fluid drachm, furlong, grain, hundredweight, ounce apoth., peck, pennyweight, quarter, quintal, rood, scruple, stone, ton, the square mile, cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic yard, and the term ‘metric ton’. However, the legal status of the bushell, fluid drachm, and peck had been repealed, along with all apothecaries' units and troy units other than ounce, by Order in 1970. Besides the remaining BI units and the simple SI units, the Act included the kilometre, decimetre, centimetre and millimetre, the square metre, square decimetre, square centimetre and square millimetre, the hectare and decare along with the are, the cubic metre, cubic decimetre and cubic centimetre, the hectolitre decilitre, centilitre and millilitre, the tonne (or ‘metric tonne’), kilogram, hectogram, milligram and carat (metric). All had been included in the similar Act of 1963, but with some variation of name: -gram was -gramme, decare was dekare, the tonne appeared only as metric ton.

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Deca or DECA may refer to:

• deca-, also spelled "deka-", a prefix in the International System of Units
• DECA (organization), a business-marketing student organization
• Decabromodiphenyl ether, an organic compound
• Discovering the Educational Consequences of Advanced Technical Education (DECA), a National Science Foundation funded research grant
• Defense Commissary Agency
• Nandrolone, the active ingredient in the steroid Deca-Durabolin, commonly referred to as Deca

See also

• Deka
• Decca
• Dalton

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