David Desplaces, associate professor in the School of Business, recently received the Freedoms Foundation Leavy Award Honoring Excellence in Private Enterprise Education.   The Leavy Award honors outstanding teachers for bringing passion and creativity to their classrooms as they teach students about entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system.

Desplaces received the award for last year’s International Service Learning (ISL) Project entitled Technology for Africa.  The program was based around business students who raised money to place computers in classrooms in the country of Cameroon.  Desplaces worked with students on a variety of projects in the Fall and then led a student group during spring break to Cameroon where they installed the computers, taught students and teachers how to use the computers, and held entrepreneurship seminars for hundreds of community members. You can see the project at  http://www.technologyforafrica.com/

The award comes with a $7,500 cash prize which  Desplaces will use to fund future ISL projects and trips to Cameroon.