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Two Things: (1) A SAGE Invitation to Moscow and (2) Service Learning/Walmart

  • 1.  Two Things: (1) A SAGE Invitation to Moscow and (2) Service Learning/Walmart

    Posted 06-29-2014 18:15

    Dear Curtis,

    With all due respect, these allegations against SIFE (now Enactus) seem absurd to me.

    In 2013 I mentored a team of students in Brazil as well as saw the teams' presentations.

    What I saw was hundreds of young students truly engaged in social entrepreneurship.

    I'm writing because this is the second message I read against SIFE.

    Maybe another colleague has a point of view different from ours.

    All the best,

    Thiago

    On Jun 29, 2014 5:48 PM, "DeBerg, Curtis" <CDeBerg@csuchico.edu> wrote:

    Dear Business Educators and Colleagues:

    I hope you are having a brilliant summer so far. This message has two purposes.

    If you are interested in being a judge for a "SAGE" youth entrepreneurship competition in Moscow, Russia on August 8-13, see this link for details. Send me an email at cdeberg@csuchico.edu if you want details. It takes about two weeks to obtain a travel visa, so one must act quickly.

    Second, some of you may recall that I recently published a book about a student organization called "SIFE/Enactus."  This organization claims to be operating in about 40 countries now, as a way for university business students to practice service learning. In actuality, SIFE/Enactus has been called a "front-organization" for Walmart by renowned labor historian Dr. Nelson Lichtenstein, and indoctrinates students to Walmart's brand of "servant leadership." Beware. To learn more, go to http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-book-how-high-is-up-exposes-students-in-free-enterprise-as-farm-system-for-walmart-management-264229491.html.

    All my best,

     

    Curt

    Dr. Curtis L. DeBerg

    Author: How High Is Up? The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of a Sam M. Walton Fellow

    College of Business

    California State University, Chico

    Chico, CA 95929-0011

    530-898-4824 (phone)

    cdeberg@csuchico.edu

    Skype: cdeberg

    Founder, SAGEGLOBAL (http://sageglobal.org)

     

    (Note: For 12 years, I was a Sam M. Walton SIFE Fellow at Chico State; after I left SIFE in 2005, I expanded SAGE to now include 23 countries. Please know that all people working for SAGE do so on a 100% volunteer basis. Our payroll is zero; I encourage you to compare this to the SIFE/Enactus payroll).

     

     

     

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