College of Business and Public Management (CBPM) student organizations hosted a competitive food drive in connection with the Super Bowl this year. The “Soup-er” Bowl Food Drive teams collected a grand total of 2,508 items, including ramen, soup, canned goods, and other shelf-stable food products, and delivered them to the WCU’s Resource Pantry.
“We wanted to create an opportunity for our CBPM community to come together around a meaningful act of service that would directly benefit members of our University community,” said Dr. Dorothy Dottie Ives Dewey, Associate Dean of the College of Business and Public Management and a professor of planning. “Our Dean’s Office staff helped coordinate the event, but the real energy came from the students and faculty advisors who mobilized their clubs. Seeing nearly every club participate and more than 2,500 items collected far exceeded expectations and was truly inspiring.”
Lilyana Campbell, an MBA candidate and graduate sales trainer for the WCU National Sales Team, said, “What motivated our team to participate is wanting to be an impactful part of student lives here at WCU, since we are a student-led team here at WCU. Our team really enjoyed getting competitive with this event, and we are looking forward to the next!”
Campbell’s team, together with the CEO Entrepreneurship Club, collected 787 items, resulting in a first-place finish for them. The Accounting Society partnered with Beta Alpha Psi to collect 567 items for second place. The Student Veterans Group tied with the Criminal Justice Student Association to take third. Women in Business earned an honorable mention. Other student organizations that participated: the Economics & Finance Society, the Geography & Planning Society, and the Pre-Law Society.
Learn more at WCU. Enrolling more than 17,000 students, West Chester University is the largest institution in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Founded in 1871, the University is a comprehensive public institution, offering a diverse range of more than 200 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs in more than 50 fields of study. In addition to the main campus in West Chester, the University offers programs through its graduate center, the Philadelphia site, and online. The University comprises six colleges and two schools: University College, Colleges of Arts and Humanities, Business and Public Management, Education and Social Work, Health Sciences, and the Sciences and Mathematics, the Wells School of Music, and the Graduate School.
