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This is a story of the development of a community service for business education project in Florida International University's Business Environment Program. The Project, as it is called, had its practical origins in student involvement in community activism-type projects. Its theoretical foundation is found in the concept of increasing community discourse — following Dewey (1954) — as a vehicle for strengthening the business and society bond. Student community service projects are described including the largest group to evolve, a group dedicated to feeding Miami's homeless and taking the name the FIU Foodrunners. The Project is now in its third year with approximately five-hundred students per year working twenty-five hours per semester on community service projects. The community service requirement directly as a result of experiences with the Project has expanded beyond the Business Environment courses to offerings in other departments and is now part of a University-wide recently institutionalized structure designed to stimulate student community service efforts.
Today was our third run, the third Sunday of waking up early. Now that I have been reading Aram and putting the pieces together, I can see how this concept of business and society comes together.
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Robert Hogner is Associate Professor in Business Environment and the Undergraduate Honors Faculty at Miami's publicly-owned and -operated university, Florida International University. He is also Treasurer and past-President for D.A.R.T., Inc., a highly successful grassroots, congregation-based, community organizing and training center. He is currently completing a book on public disclosure and community discourse as an evolving form of environmental regulation.
A previous version of this paper was delivered at the 1994 Academy of Management Meetings, Dallas, Texas.
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Hogner, R.H. Speaking in poetry: Community service-based business education. Journal of Business Ethics 15, 33–43 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380260
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