ECSU Magazine 2.1.pmd - Elizabeth City State University

StudentnewsSIFE team wins honorThe Elizabeth City State University SIFE (Studentsin Free Enterprise) Team matched its educationaloutreach projects against the programs of other SIFETeams at the 2003 SIFE Regional Competition andCareer Opportunity Fair held in April in Reston, VA.ECSU’s SIFE TEAM won First-Runner-Up.Students in Free Enterprise encourages studentsto take what they are learning in the classroom andapply it to real-life situations, and to use theirknowledge to better their communities througheducational outreach projects. The projectspresented by the Elizabeth City State University SIFETeam included Business Ethics Month,Entrepreneurship Month, Financial Independence Month,Free Market Economics, Best Use of the Internet-TeachingStudents Grades K-12, and Best Use of Internet –TeachingBusiness Owners E-Commerce.Teams were judged on project effectiveness duringa 24-minute presentation and were evaluated oncreativity and innovation, results of educationprograms, success in utilizing resources anddocumentation of activities. ECSU-SIFE studentsalso met with dozens of corporate representativesfrom the Reston business community to discuss jobopportunitiesDrs. Ebere and Ngozi Oriaku serve as advisors forthe SIFE Team. Drs. Oriaku were each named a SamM. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow in recognition oftheir leadership and support of the SIFE program atElizabeth City State University.Founded in 1975 and active on more than 1,400college and university campuses in 33 countries,SIFE is a non-profit organization that works inpartnership with business and higher education toprovide students the opportunity to make adifference and to develop leadership, teamwork andcommunication skills through learning, practicingand teaching the principles of free enterprise.ECSU-SIFE Team Participants Joy Mcghee Sheila Brady Randy Lassiter Jarvis Gray Teri Mercer Ivory Overton Tanyetta PittmanP OSTERSON THE HILLpromotingstudent/facultycollaborativeresearch andscholarshipbriefs22 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL 2003In April, Carl Seward, Golar Newby, Danielle Graves,Nelson Veales, and Linwood Creekmore represented ECSUin Raleigh for “Posters on the Hill,” a poster displayhighlighting student and faculty research projects. TheECSU scholars joined students from 15 universities in theUNC system to enlighten legislators on assorted academicresearch projects underway at the state’s publicuniversities.The ECSU scholars came from the School ofMathematics, Science and Technology. The Council onUndergraduate Research organized the event to supportand promote high-quality undergraduate student-facultycollaborative research and scholarship. Chancellor MickeyL. Burnim and Dr. Carolyn Mahoney, Provost and ViceChancellor for Academic Affairs, also attended.