- June 15, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
In a year marked by isolation and crisis, a class taught by Donald Roomes, an FIU Business teaching professor of international business, brought over 125 students together to raise over $9,000 to fund the dream of a local child with a critical illness.
Each year, Roomes’ class delivers lessons in creating, managing and evaluating a service-learning project. The class was divided into teams, with each choosing a community agency that serves a need and then documenting a plan to help in meeting the need.
In normal times, the focus is on hands-on, in-person work with an organization, in addition to a paper and group presentation on the learning outcome. During the pandemic, however, visits were restricted, and many students weren’t comfortable going into the community.
At that point, as he does each semester, Roomes brought in a speaker to give students a first-hand look at the impact of service: Erin Briede, a volunteer at Make-A-Wish Southern Florida,…
