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Entrepreneurship, Service Learning, Wal-Mart, SIFE

  • 1.  Entrepreneurship, Service Learning, Wal-Mart, SIFE

    Posted 03-07-2014 19:34

    Dear Friends,

     

    I just checked Amazon.com, and my book, "How High Is Up? The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of a Sam M. Walton SIFE Fellow," is now available.

     

    A description is as follows:

     

    Sponsored by Wal-Mart and other corporations, Students in Free Enterprise holds competitions throughout the world for university student teams. The author, advising a SIFE team in California, discovers that some teams received awards without entering. He documents other faults with the organization; subsequently, he founds a new organization targeting innovative teens. His program, unlike SIFE, encourages teens to become entrepreneurs. This book tells the story of student achievement, corporate hanky-panky, and one man who stood up to powerful leaders of business trying to stop him.

     

    The last several chapters describe an organization that I founded in 2002 called SAGE-I explain how teens start social enterprises and commercial enterprises under the direction of university students who mentor them as part of their service-learning activities.  

     

    If you decide to buy and read it, I hope you post a review.

     

    Writing this book has been a three-year journey involving lots of tossing and turning!

     

    Here's the link.


    http://www.amazon.com/High-Rise-Redemption-Walton-Fellow/dp/1937748030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394236737&sr=8-1&keywords=how+high+is+up%3F+deberg

     

    Have a great weekend.

     

    Miles of Smiles,

     

    Curt

    Dr. Curtis L. DeBerg

    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)

     

     

     

     

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