Marquette University has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the top student activist campuses in the U.S. because of the extensive community service activities of our students. Business students have many opportunities to apply their growing knowledge of business to real situations through service to the local community. These opportunities are offered through individual courses, service learning, and student organization activities.
Service learning provides students with the opportunity to learn more about themselves and their profession by applying what they have learned in service to a non-profit organization in the community. Business faculty incorporate service learning into courses in information technology (for example, designing web pages or developing a data base), business and society (finding suitable corporate partners for service organizations such as Journey House and the Badger Association of the Blind), and human resources management (designing a performance appraisal system or studying turnover and its causes).
For more information on the Service Learning Program at Marquette, go to http://www.marquette.edu/servicelearning/.
MANA 159 - CONSULTING TO ENTREPRENEURS
This course offers students hands-on experience in actual consulting engagements and the operation of consulting practices. Many of the students' clients are central city and minority business people or organizations that serve the central city.
BUEX 189 - BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Consistent with the Jesuit professional tradition of the College of Business Administration, the College has made a commitment to provide opportunities for students to get involved with service projects in the business community.
The Community Service Program gives the student the opportunity to get involved with the non-profit organizations throughout the Milwaukee area. It is a chance for undergraduates to exercise their business skills in the real world.
Reverend Thomas Brennan S.J., college chaplain, leads interested students through this experience in his class (BUEX 189).
In the past, students have utilized their business skills on the following projects:
- Setting up computer systems for Shelters for the Homeless
- Designing billboards for Help the Homeless Organizations
- Assisting parolees in seeking jobs
- Writing grant proposals, developing marketing brochures and developing a web site for the Children's Theater School
- Conducting a marketing surveying and analyzing the data of membership information for Nature Centers
- Designing a promotional video for Alternatives School
- Designing marketing surveys for supermarkets in poor neighborhoods
- Aiding churches to market their non-religious and non-sacramental services
- Marketing local neighborhood organizations and alliances
CONTACT
For further information, please contact the course instructor, Fr. Thomas Brennan, S.J. at 414-288-1465 or Thomas.Brennan@marquette.edu
Each of the thirteen business student organizations are committed to providing service to the greater Milwaukee and Marquette community. Many of the service projects integrate business knowledge but are not limited to. As an example, in the past year the Beta Alpha Psi accounting fraternity conducted the following service activities:
- Tutoring for current students in introductory accounting courses
- Assisting instructors in proctoring of exams
- Tax preparation and consultation for the general public (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program)
- Briggs Walk
- Penfield Children's Center - provided stuffed animals and monetary donation for Christmas
- Hunger Cleanup
- Internal Controls for Summerfest
- WICPA More than Just the Numbers Program - students worked with a local 5th grade class to promote careers in the accounting profession
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