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Section: July 1998
Front
Page
Lead Story
They're talking on campus...
On the Road
ActionLine NEA
In the Know
From Capital to Campus
NEA Affilitates in Action
Higher Education News
Money Savvy
The Dialogue
Thriving in Academe
Chris
Maitland
Curt Deberg, an NEA member at California State University, Chico, is the faculty advisor to a group of students on his campus who give real meaning to the idea of partnerships in education.
These students have been working with K-12 students in the area, teaching them the principles of economics.
Deberg's students have become so good at their partnership work that they recently won $12,000 in prize money at the Students in Free Enterprise national conference in Kansas City.
The projects that caught the judges' attention were CSU Chico's outreach projects in the county and its web site: www.csuchico.edu/sife.
The students are business majors, and Curt is taking them into the K-12 schools to mentor at-risk students. Some of his students have become so excited about teaching they're rethinking their career choices.
One of their most successful projects was a mentoring program at an area last chance high school where the team was able to increase attendance in the class by 30 percent.
How do these students do it?
"We bring them something new each time we visit and we care," explains one student.
Chris Maitland is an NEA higher education coordinator.
