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Orange County Social Entrepreneurship Competition reaches out to the international community to solve the world’s social problems
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“We are setting up the center to help people figure out how to open a business and be socially sustainable,” Fredrickson said. “Many people don’t know how to setup a business, we want to open up community outreach. Many services
will be free. People can come for research and figure out new opportunities to start a business.” For more information visit www.entrepreneurship.saddleback.edu
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nesses could have lasting ramifications for people, issues and the economy.” Fredrickson has been working on the showcase for three months. “We’re trying to be a leader in the social entrepreneurship movement. The new way to look at business plans is for the triple bottom line. The first bottom line is to make a profit. The second is to ask what are you doing for people. The third is what is the business doing for the environment,” Fredrickson said. “All plans have to have a social aspect. Think of all the social issues homelessness, hunger, women sex trade, veteran unemployment. What issue is the business going to solve and can they make it sustainable” According to the Stanford Social Innovation Review 2013 www.ssireview. org, “The social entrepreneur is a tenacious leader with a pragmatic vision and a solution that address a clear social problem. Social entrepreneurs address systems — not just the symptoms of a problem they seek to address, and their business model prioritizes social impact while generating a sustainable funding stream.” Saddleback has also opened and entrepreneurship center which hosts classes, seminars and resources available to the community. The classes are a part of the Community Education program in response to community needs.
Learning Resource Center tutoring reported a dramatic increase in students serviced and enrolled in the tutoring program over the last year in a presentation given to the Board of Trustees April 28 at Saddleback College. “Tutoring is vital to students for a few reasons,” said Christina Hinkle, a faculty tutorial specialist with the LRC Tutoring Program. “It really prepares the students and allows them to interact with the faculty in a relaxed setting.” From fall 2012 to fall 2013, the number of students enrolled in the LRC’s tutoring class increased from 2,292 to 3,243, an increase of 41 percent. Student hours served also increased from 25,067 hours served in fall 2012 to 51, 879 hours in fall 2013, an increase of 106 percent. “It’s an immense program and it’s growing,” Hinkle said. Along with the increase in student hours, the tutoring program has also increased the amount of faculty available. “We now have a faculty member available during every hour of tutoring,” she said. The inclusion of more faculty members has allowed for new classes such as Crunch Time, a special tutoring session designed to get students ready for finals and important exams. Increased faculty participation also helped spur new ideas and creative thinking within the program. “The faculty bring with them these new ideas. I’ve been here 28 years and these last two years I’ve been amazed,” said Patty Weekes, director of LRC Tutoring. “Usually during crunch time we’re all freaking out. It’s so amaazing to walk in during crunch time and see all the students and faculty working together.” While normal students are a priority, student athletes are also assisted through their own unique program. The Program Assisting Student-Athlete Success
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he Orange County Social Entrepreneurship Competition Showcase finalists will be presenting their sustainable business plans to the public at the UC Irvine on May 10 at 9:30 a.m. Finalists were chosen May 2 with applicants from nine countries, 13 states and over 30 cities in California. “Social entrepreneurship is so important because generating sustainable businesses that do social good often end up needing donations. Everybody is begging for the same finite pot of money. This is about businesses with their own profits not worrying about philanthropy and donations,” Dr. Scott Frederickson, executive director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Learning Center at Saddleback College, said. The competition allows the international community to pitch sustainable business ideas with a motive for social change. Based off the Michigan Entrepreneurship Challenge, Saddleback College organized and administered the Orange County competition and opened it to communities internationally. This is the first time the Social Entrepreneurship Competition has been done on an international level. “There are so many reasons to be excited. First is that we get to find new ways to solve social problems. We should utilize the free market in our democratic system and look at the power of free market and business knowledge to help solve problems,” Saddleback College President Todd Burnett said. “This is a great opportunity and the chance of a lifetime. We encourage everyone to come forward with ideas. These busi-
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Michael Horrell, 26, civil engineering major helps his friend Peter Laurente, 26, kinesiology major, prepare for his algebra exam in the LRC at Saddleback College. (PASS) was created not only to have open study and tutoring hours for all athletes, but to improve their self-confidence and preparation. “We’re fighting on two fronts,” said Hinkle. “I’ve seen a dramatic change in our students. Not only are they not prepared, they also lack the confidence.” Since the creation of the PASS program, 40 percent of all student athletes made the honor roll in fall 2013, the highest in any year of Saddleback’s history. Hinkle credits it to how a community has formed around the tutoring program. “It’s really turned into an authentic learning com-
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munity,” Hinkle said. The Board of Trustees reacted favorably to the presentation and the results, with Trustee Timothy Jemal stating that he’s “a big believer in tutoring.” However, for the program to succeed, funding is essential. Hinkle reiterated that point in the meeting. “Money. Money to expand the supplemental instruction in science, math and basic English programs,” she said. “Online tutoring as well.” Enrollment in the Tu300 class is required to receive tutoring from the LRC, and students can enroll at any time during the school year.
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Laziness and a lack of self-efficacy are two reasons why people do not exercise much, according to UC Irvine doctoral student Svetlana Bershadsky during PsychWeek, May 1 at Saddleback College. The talk was designed to examine “the psychological influences in exercise,” and why people do not exercise despite knowing the health benefits. “Physical inactivity has been identified as a health risk,” he said. “The Department of Health released guidelines for physical activity. It includes one hour or more of physical activity, three days a week.” Bershadsky’s research suggests that these guidelines are not being met, especially by young people, and he claimed claimed that only 17 percent of adolescents and young people got one hour or more of physical activity three times a week. Bershadsky’s research also suggests that while exercise and physical activity improves mood, relieves stress and helps self-esteem, people are discouraged from working out by scheduling conflicts, laziness, access to facilities and self-efficacy. She added that the last element is key. Self-efficacy is the state where a person knows they can accomplish a goal or complete a task. Bershadsky’s research studied this, as well as psychological “effect,” in order to determine how people’s psychological states affected their willingness to be physically active. One theory brought up was the Theory of Planned Behavior, suggesting that attitudes toward behaviors, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control all factor into whether or not someone will exercise. Bershadsky, along with a team of experts from UCI, did two studies gauging exercise and psychological affect. In both studies, subjects felt better when exercising as opposed to staying inactive. However, most of the test subjects either did not continue to exercise over long periods of time or stopped participating in the study. Bershadsky attributes this to habits and subjects not being monitored when they exercised at home. “We lost a lot of participants when they worked out at home. Many of them were not exercising at all, or gave incorrect data,” Bershadsky said. She also attributed this to people’s dispositions. “There’s research to suggest that how we are feeling during exercise, relates to our disposition,” she said. “What’s missing in the research, so far, is whether or not your affect is stable overtime.” Bershadsky recommended that positive reinforcement for physical activity came at an early stage in order to create habits that were beneficial to one’s physical and mental health. “We need to provide the necessary equipment and encouragement,” Bershadsky said.
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