Social Responsibility

Rodel Pipeline for Excellence Eller College created the Rodel Pipeline for Excellence program with support from the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona, a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to improving Arizona's education system. Through this program, exceptional undergraduate students become Eller-Rodel Mentors working with middle and elementary schools to introduce youth to higher education and career planning. The program increases opportunities for students with limited resources and helps to keep young students focused on education and advanced training, creating a win-win scenario for students and local businesses alike.

Integrity, ethics, and social responsibility are integral to an Eller College education. Social responsibility informs our curricula as well as the role of the College in the local community and beyond.

E-tegrity

E-tegrity is a vanguard initiative to develop business leaders with integrity and a clear sense of social responsibility. Begun in 2003, the first year of the program saw the formation of a student-led board and E-tegrity code, case competitions and the honor of the 2004 Innovation Award of the Southwestern Business Deans' Association.

The initiative is now part of the make-up of the College and includes faculty and student use of TurnItIn.com (an online anti-plaigarism tool), a required seminar series, and a Western region ethics case competition.

Social Entrepreneurship

Taught through the Management and Policy Department, a course on Social Entrepreneurship challenges students to focus business skills on social and/or environmental problem solving. Students develop proposals to address specific problems, and honors and graduate students can go on to implement their proposals.

The impact of the course has been far-reaching: one group of students has partnered with Wall Street Journal to increase global awareness among high school students nationwide. Another student took her education to rural Alaska to help the unemployed become self-employed, while another student returned to Europe where he has helped to infuse the concept of “giving back” among businesses in Belgium.

Students Consulting for Non-Profit Organizations (SCNO)

SCNO leverages the skills and knowledge of undergraduate business students in consulting for non-profit organizations. Eller College projects have ranged from implementing a financial/accounting system for the Museum of Contemporary Art to providing Web development services to the New Parents Network.

International Development

In 2004, Eller College students traveled to Mexico to work with scientists from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, a consortium of educational and research institutes across Mexico. Together, the teams created commercial feasibility plans for various optical technologies in development in CONACYT institutions as one facet of the Binational Consortium in Optics, currently led by The University of Arizona.

Eller College Philanthropy

Every year Eller College students, faculty, staff, and alumni join forces to provide a day of much-needed services—from painting to building repairs—to local community service organizations. In 2004, some 300 volunteers provided services to 28 local organizations.

  RSVP now for Eller College Philanthropy 4: Saturday, December 3, 2005.
  

For further information, please contact us.