Beyond the Classroom

IMAGINE. MAKE IT HAPPEN!

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Entrepreneurship in Taos

Calling all entrepreneurially–minded students who want to raise $$$ for their ideas:  Spend January in TAOS!

Meadows professor Jim Hart is teaching (AMAE 3387) Attracting Capital: Donors, Investors and Public Funds.

A fun, fast-paced and intensive adventure into fundraising as an entrepreneur - this is an energetic, game-based class that develops the skills for students to pitch original ideas for funding and to land the job of one’s dreams. This class fulfills UC requirements for Oral Communication and Quantitative Reasoning.

 Learn more: https://www.smu.edu/Taos/CoursesJan2016

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If you’re in Dallas, come on out and help us move to our new home at Jubilee Park & Community Center in the Fair Park community of South Dallas!  https://www.facebook.com/events/1398602570457262/ We’ll be working with Jubilee to teach their community to how to be independently food sustainable.  We’re excited to announce this new partnership and look forward to our greater involvement in the area.

Jubilee is a phenomenal community center. Check ‘em out: http://jubileecenter.org/

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Snow Day at SMU

The Southern Methodist University campus was blanketed by snow on Friday, February 27, 2015. The most beautiful college campus in North Texas was a winter wonderland for a day. The nice thing about snow in Dallas, it usually melts before it becomes a grey slushy mess. 

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Aramark Holiday Celebration 2014

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Good afternoon everyone,

As you may or may not know, volunteers and I have been preparing to submit the necessary documentation to make the ESL classes into a chartered student organization at SMU! I am graduating this May, and many people have expressed the desire to continue our service to the...

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Add a spark to your resume, and get $2,000 to do it! The 2015 Application Cycle ends February 15.

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My Project is to create an English Literacy and Life Skills/Professional Development Program for the Aramark Facility Services employees at Southern Methodist University. The population we will serve is our very own custodial, maintenance, and grounds care employees on campus. Potential program...

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Engaged Learning Senior Cycle Application due September 30!

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Research Day 2014 was a huge success! Congratulations to the winners and all of the participants! #graduateresearch #undergraduateresearch #researchday2014

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Application Cycle now open!

http://www.smu.edu/EngagedLearning/APPLICATION

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Delanah Colbert worked with UBELONG in Cusco, Peru to develop and deliver a culturally relevant health education program addressing nutritional disorders.

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Claire Carson volunteered Kidane Meheret children's home in Ethiopia, using the experience to produce a play script which will be produced by SMUST, SMU's student theater organization.

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Morgan Cain is researching economic, socio-political and personal movements impacting organizational structures in Moscow to identify key relationship factors that will lead to the widespread adoption of eco-friendly practices.

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Morgan Beckwith interned with the Mystic Ballet professional dance company in Mystic, CT to gain inside knowledge about the administrative and artistic sides of a successful contemporary dance company.

http://morganinmystic.tumblr.com/

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Mariam Alaka working in an orphanage in Nigeria that serves children whose parents have succumbed to AIDS. She gauged the children's knowledge and prevention of AIDS.