Join us in congratulating Center's Student Enterprise (StEP) Director, Dr. Val Krugh for receiving the Leavey Award!

Dr. Val Krugh, Economics Center's Student Enterprise Program (StEP) Director, is one of three university faculty in the nation to receive a Leavey Award for excellence in private enterprise education from the Freedoms Foundation.

Dr. Krugh was selected for a project she helped launch at Fairfield City Schools in January 2011 called The Traveling T-Shirt Company. She designed curriculum that used T-shirts as a connection to service learning, math, language arts and entrepreneurship.

“The curriculum provided students with the opportunity to grasp business concepts and understand the life of an entrepreneur as they use T-shirt profits to fund a global non-profit cause of their choice,” Krugh says.

Dr. Krugh will be recognized at the Freedoms Foundation award ceremony March 15–18 in Philadelphia.

Since 1949, the Freedoms Foundation has awarded more than $3 million in grants to nearly 500 teachers across the country. The non-profit was founded by Ken Wells, Don Belding and E.F. Hutton, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower served as its first chairman and chairman emeritus until his death in 1969.

The group’s mission remains devoted to helping students, teachers and citizens gain a greater awareness and appreciation of the principles of a free and democratic society.

To read the full release for the University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Linder College of Business, visit: UC Carl H. Lindner College of Business Faculty Earn Leavey Award