News
A team of UMC students involved in Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
earned SIFE Regional Champion status at the organization’s
annual regional conference, held April 6 in Minneapolis. This
is the fifth consecutive year UMC’s team has earned the title,
making it the only college in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North and
South Dakota to achieve that feat. UMC’s team will now
advance to the 2004 SIFE U.S.A. National Exposition on May 23-25
in Kansas City, Missouri, to compete against other regional champion
teams from across the country. Read
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This week UMC Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) are celebrating
the grand opening of their student-run business, University Corner,
located in the lobby of RiverView Health Center on Minnesota Avenue
in Crookston. The business is part of their yearly program
of work and will play a role in their upcoming regional competition.
University Corner's hours of operation are 8 a.m. to Noon weekdays.
Posted 03/12/2004
Jay Tupa, a senior majoring in business management and marketing
from Fargo, N.D., was named UMC Student of the Month by the Crookston
Rotary Club. Tupa addressed the group at its weekly meeting on Thursday,
February 19. He is involved with the UMC Golden Eagles Hockey Team
(co-captain) and is active in UMC SIFE, and the UMC Student Athletic
Advisory Committee.
Posted 02/23/2004
UMC students Jana Hodgson (left) of Warroad and
Anthony Wagner (center) of Warsaw are shown above
staffing a booth for UMC's
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) group at the Marketplace
for Entrepreneurs conference, underway January 14-15 at the
Alerus Center in Grand Forks, ND. Several members of UMC SIFE
will staff the booth to promote entrepreneurship, free enterprise,
and UMC's business management and marketing programs over the two-day
event. Part of the event also includes a student business
plan competition in which three UMC students participated.
Kelly Bisek a senior business major from Mahnomen
was selected to advance to the second round of that competition.
Posted 01/15/2004
UMC Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) hosted the 22nd Annual Red
River Valley Arts and Crafts Show at the Crookston Armory on Saturday,
October 25. UMC SIFE members were responsible for soliciting crafters
and selling concessions as well as promoting, financing, hosting,
and organizing the entire show. Over 700 area residents attended.
Forty vendors from across Minnesota and North Dakota displayed their
unique arts and crafts. In marketing this craft show, UMC SIFE utilized
promotional strategies including television, radio, newspapers,
and posters.
This
annual arts and crafts show serves as the primary fundraising event
for the UMC SIFE club and enables the group to conduct all of its
free enterprise activities throughout the year. This year's show
featured 14% more vendors and an 8% increase in attendance over
last year's show. The growth of this event has ensured that it will
continue in future years. UMC SIFE members also had the chance to
spread SIFE's message about entrepreneurship and free enterprise
economics by distributing informational flyers to those in attendance.
Posted 10/28/2003
Show runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Crookston Armory
Posted: 10/20/2003
UMC SIFE co-president Ryan Tripp (right) was one of the students
who staffed an information booth on Wednesday, October 1, during
the UMC Club Fair in Sahlstrom Conference Center. SIFE members
wanted to promote their group and let students know more about it.
They also promoted the upcoming annual craft show and career fair,
which UMC SIFE sponsors.
Posted 10/03/2003
Posted 04/11/2003
 UMC
students Tim Gerla, Dan Oberg, and Ryan Tripp traveled to
Minneapolis Wednesday, February 26, 2003, to take part in “Impress
the President—Public Engagement and Research Initiatives:
A Student Expo” at the University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities. Students from across the U of M system presented information
about undergraduate research and other projects in which they have
taken part. The event was held in Coffman Union's Mississippi
Room and was part of U of M Founders Week. It was sponsored
by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Minnesota Student
Association, and Coffman Board of Governors.
Ryan
Tripp, a junior majoring in business management and marketing,
presented a business plan, Tripp Dock and Life, which he presented
earlier this year at the Marketplace of Ideas Conference in Grand
Forks. An exercise in entrepreneurship and rural economic
development, the business plan reflected work he had begun with
a self-started business when he was in high school. The business
plan detailed how others might duplicate a similar business.
Tripp is from Alexandria, Minnesota.
Posted 02/28/2003
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