Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Mission Statements


by Ann Abbott

In today's class we wrapped up our lessons on mission statement and social entrepreneurship, although that is a topic that is always central to any other topic--because it is the center of all the organization's decision-making.

We saw examples of mission statements we all recognize because of a company's branding. We also looked at some less than stellar mission statements--our university's own plus those of several units on our campus.

Finally, we turned our sites to our own course: SPAN 332 "Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Languages, Cultures & Communities." We tried to define what the course's competition was and its unique value proposition. Building on that, students formed small groups and tried their hand at coming up with a mission statement for our course. They all need to post them here as a comment, so click on the comments to read them and see how well they did.

Comments

  1. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 6:36 PM

    Poniendo estudiantes en accion - Ryan

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 6:53 PM

    Aprender y compartir-Michele

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 10:57 PM

    Educación por experiencia-Jinitzail

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  4. BLFebruary 11, 2010 at 11:47 PM

    Tuvimos dos:
    1. Crear valor social por la experiencia de la comunidad y aprendizaje sobre empresariado y las organizaciones sin fines de lucro.

    2. Experiencia tu aprendizaje.

    -Carolina y Brittney

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 9:40 AM

    Desarrollando nuestras habilidades para el beneficio de la comunidad. -Niru

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 4:00 PM

    Aplicate!- Maribeth y Ryan

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    Un Intercambio de Aprendizaje y Experiencia- Abigail, Stephanie y Melanie

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  8. HugoFebruary 13, 2010 at 2:41 PM

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2010 at 8:41 PM

    Ayudar y Aprender
    - Carolina y Toni

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  10. HugoFebruary 17, 2010 at 5:28 PM

    Desarrolla y logra tus metas

    Hugo
    Troy
    McBride

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  11. SammiFebruary 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM

    Educacion por experiencia--Sammi y dos otras

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