BEST PRACTICES
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Below is a description of SIFE which is a student organization that hones leadership skills. Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) is the world’s preeminent collegiate free enterprise organization. SIFE provides leadership training, regional competitions and career opportunity fairs for thousands of college students throughout 33 countries, and awards more than $400,000 in prize money to college student teams each year. That's why more than 185 top corporate executives sit on the SIFE Board of Directors. Inspired by the energy, passion and healthy idealism SIFE students possess, they are business people and community leaders who champion the ideas that hard work pays, free markets work, democracy leads to prosperity and freedom brings social responsibility.
Partnering with Business and Industry Creating partnerships with business and industry have proven to be win-win situations for students, educators, private businesses, and the local economic community. A video of personal interviews with principals from the Western Association of Food Chains, Tribal Technology, and Composite Technologies show the advantages of partnering education with private businesses. It includes strategies for successful implementation and illustrations of positive outcomes. These “best practices” are excellent examples that may be used at local advisory committee meetings or faculty meetings where potential partnerships may be of issue. Copies of this video can be obtained upon request to the Business Education Statewide Advisory Committee, Kathy Craven at 714-241-6363 or kcraven@mail.ccc.cccd.edu.