Students "heroes"/SEG Center benefit Racine agency
UW-Parkside students serve as heroes at Family Services
University of Wisconsin-Parkside Marketing Professor Michael T. Manion takes the same view as author Miguel de Cervantes' hero "Don Quixote" that making things better requires a personal commitment.
"Cervantes portrayed Don Quixote as 'spurred on by the conviction that the world needed his immediate presence,'" Manion said. "And I believe my students are inspired by a growing awareness that their communities need their active commitment."
Manion
said two of his students, Jose Faz and Olga Garcia, are serving as community heroes through projects sponsored
by the Ralph L. Jaeschke
Solutions for Economic Growth (SEG) Center.
Faz,
a senior majoring in Spanish and marketing, is working with Family Service of
Racine (FSR) to promote financial counseling services in Racine's Hispanic community.
"It's
great to be able to take what I'm learning about marketing at Parkside and use
it to help the Spanish-speaking people in my community," Faz said of his
project.
Garcia
is a senior marketing major who is using her bi-lingual and bi-cultural talents
to help Family Service help the community.
"I understand the cultural differences between the generations in the Hispanic community, and I'm helping promote the value of counseling that addresses those needs to Spanish-speaking families," Garcia said.
Family Service executive director
Eric Rautenberg said Faz's and Garcia's bi-lingual promotion skills are helping his
not-for-profit agency meet a growing need.
"FSR
is committed to serving everyone in need of financial and family counseling in
Racine and our
Spanish-speaking clientele is growing rapidly," Rautenberg said. "We
intend to apply the promotion plans the Parkside students provide to do an even
better job in our community."
UW-Parkside
School of Business and Technology Dean Fred Ebeid said the Center continues to
prove itself a valuable asset for students, the university, and the business
community.
"The SEG Center
provides UW-Parkside students important hands-on experience they can apply in
their chosen career choice," Ebeid said. "Local organizations also
benefit from student and faculty support in meeting their respective mission."
For more information on the Ralph L. Jaeschke Solutions for Economic Growth (SEG) Center, call Center director Brad Piazza at (262) 595.2046 or visit www.uwp.edu/departments/business.technology/seg.center/ on the Web.
