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MU ★  Community & Economic Development, Training & Professional Development

Professional EDGE

In the Advanced Professional Development course, students work with a professional partner through MU Extension, the MU Office of Service-Learning, or corporate partners across the state to complete a professional project. Students address the business needs of the partner organization, and dedicate approximately 30 hours per student per semester to this effort.

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Professional EDGE

Professional EDGE projects provide an experiential learning opportunity in which students exercise the four professional competencies that are the focus of BA3500: Leadership, Critical Thinking, Learning Agility, and Influencing Others. In the 2019-2020 inaugural year, students were matched with professional projects through MU Extension and the MU Office of Service-Learning. Their goal was to address an assigned business problem or opportunity and develop solutions for Missouri businesses. 

Impact

Project Statistics • 599 undergraduate participants in 103 projects • 15 MBA participants provided project support • Over 9000 project hours completed • When COVID-19 required significant project adjustments and working remotely, 100% of projects were completed, thanks to dedicated students and project partners. Sample projects include: Jefferson City Post-Tornado Business Recovery Strategies; Women Landowners Conference Marketing; Benton County Tourism Social Media Strategy; Schuyler County Agritourism Assessment; Clinton Main Street Revitalization Project; Agritourism: Cattle Ranch Airbnb Marketing; Refugee and Immigration Services - Marketing & Fundraising; Diversity and Inclusion Research for the Kansas City Region; Heart of Missouri United Way Core Capacity Assessment Training; Warsaw Downtown Merchants Business Assessment and Strategy; Missouri College Advising Corps Marketing; Lake of the Ozarks Workforce Gap Analysis; Butler County 4-H Leadership Development; MU Extension – Missouri SBDC COVID-19 Research; and, Columbia apartment COVID-19 marketing strategy.
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Business, Collaboration, Community, Economic Development, Education, Outreach, Partnership, Program, Workforce Development

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Lauren Brengarth, PhD, ACUE
  brengarthlb@missouri.edu
  573-882-3106
  https://business.missouri.edu/departments-faculty/people-directory/lauren-bacon-brengarth

Location

  Cornell Hall, Columbia, MO 65201, USA

More Information

https://business.missouri.edu/edge

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