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MANHATTAN COLLEGE STUDENTS IN FREE ENTERPRISE (SIFE) TEAM CREATE AWARD-WINNING BUSINESS OUTREACH PLAN

The College’s SIFE Team competes at the 2005 Regional SIFE Conference.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team was named second runner-up in the 2005 SIFE Regional Competition held April 7, 2005 in Hartford, Conn. The nine-person team presented a report for its yearlong community outreach projects to a panel of business leaders at the competition.

During the academic year, the College’s SIFE Team organized six projects in the Bronx, including “Biz Week” at Manhattan College, a weeklong series of business and financial events cosponsored by the team and the school of business. “Biz Week” is designed to increase the overall awareness and importance of various aspects of business, as well as to raise awareness and on-campus participation in SIFE for all major fields of study. Programs planned for “Biz Week” – held on campus April 14 through April 18, 2005 – included a savings and retirement seminar, a workshop on launching your own business and a discussion on understanding corporate mergers.

SIFE is an international, nonprofit organization that encourages students to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations, and to use their knowledge to better their communities through educational outreach projects. The organization is active in more than 1,800 college campuses in more than 40 countries. SIFE Teams focus on projects that teach market economics, entrepreneurship, personal finance success skills and business ethics.

Teams were judged on three criteria: the creativity, innovation and effectiveness of their presentations. In addition to “Biz Week,” the Manhattan SIFE Team worked on assisting a Bronx-based manufacturing company boost their annual revenue by revamping the company’s Web site, and by assisting in generating new ideas that directly effect the company’s bottom line.

Dr. Frederick Greene, associate professor of management and marketing at the College, has served as advisor to the SIFE Team for the past five years. Dr. Greene also is the Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow, which recognizes his leadership and support of the SIFE program at Manhattan.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 in the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching, inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Manhattan is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, as well as graduate study in education and engineering.

MANHATTAN COLLEGE WINNING SIFE TEAM

Nicholas J. Abbate, Senior, Undecided
Kyle Hanzas, Marketing/Managerial Science
Michelle Y. Kim, Senior, Marketing/Managerial Science
Jillian Dale Kraus, Senior, Marketing
Renee Leotta, Senior, Economics
Jennifer Pychewicz, Senior, Finance/Managerial Science
Eugene J. Tanner III, Senior, Finance/Managerial Science
Alexia Margaret Vardouniotis, Senior, Managerial Science
Brett Warmington, Senior, Finance

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