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A major criticism of contemporary business education centers on its failure to help business students achieve sufficient educational breath, particularly with regard to the external environment of business. The service-learning movement offers business faculty an excellent opportunity to address this deficiency. By developing curricular projects linked to community needs, faculty can further their students' technical skills while helping them simultaneously develop greater inter-personal, inter-cultural, and ethical sensitivity.
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Edward Zlotkowski is Director of the Bentley Service-Learning Project, a college-wide program that has thus far involved 15 of Bentley's 16 academic departments, over 50 faculty members, and over 2000 students it its work. He has served as a consultant to Campus Compact and the Massachusetts Commission on Community Service as well as to individual colleges. He is currently serving as a Senior Associate at the American Association for Higher Education.
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Zlotkowski, E. Opportunity for all: Linking service-learning and business education. Journal of Business Ethics 15, 5–19 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380258
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