Honors Cohort
Community Service
 Ryan Bauer instructs elementary school students during a Cohort volunteer trip to the Bahamas |
Service Learning Activities
Students in the Honors Cohort Program are required to apply their academic education by participating in community service outreach activities. Each student must commit to volunteer 30 hours each school year in focused service learning activities in addition to any of their own personal volunteer activities. These community service activities are structured to integrate the concepts that they are learning in their core business classes, developing their team building skills while providing them an opportunity to volunteer side-by-side with business leaders.
The following are examples of the unique service learning activities in which Honors Cohort students have participated:
- Junior Achievement of Central Ohio: Partnering with inner-city grade schools, Honors Cohort students teach elementary students the fundamental principles of business and economics.
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| Ryan Bauer, Amy Porr and Nicole Alex volunteer for Junior Achievement |
- Columbus Sister Cities International: Honors
Cohort students designed and staffed the Columbus Sister Cities
booth for the annual Columbus International Festival
- Judicial Education Center at the Ohio Supreme Court: With the opening of this new education center in January 2006, the honors cohorts were among the first volunteers to serve as tour guides explaining the legal process to community and school groups while reinforcing their knowledge of Business Law (H510).
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| The Supreme Court of Ohio |
- Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Columbus: In support of breast cancer research, Honors Cohort students ran in the annual Race for the Cure in downtown Columbus
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| Mike Murrer, Ty Shepfer and Brian Schoo prior to running in Race for the Cure |
- The Humane Society: Using their marketing talents, Honors Cohort students created advertisements for the annual Ho-Ho-Happenings fundraiser
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| Luba Osadchy and Jessie Martz pose with Santa at the Ho-Ho-Happenings fundraiser |
- American Red Cross Blood Drive at Nationwide: While
working closely with Nationwide’s management team, the honors
cohort students applied their Marketing skills to successfully meet
the challenge of increasing blood donor participation from
employees at this large financial services firm.
"We were delighted to have the honors
students work with us to
increase associate blood donations. Please come
back!"