How high is up?
Subtitle: the rise, fall, and redemption of a Sam M. Walton SIFE fellow
By: by Curtis L. Deberg
Publisher: Memoir Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chico, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781937748036
Subjects: Entrepreneurship; Study and teaching; Business ethics; Corporate culture; Free enterprise; Philosophy; Social responsibility of business
Description: Sponsored by Wal-Mart and other corporations, Students in Free Enterprise holds competitions throughout the world for university student teams. The author, advising a SIFE team in California, discovers that some teams received awards without entering. He documents other faults with the organization; subsequently, he founds a new organization targeting innovative teens. His program, unlike SIFE, encourages teens to become entrepreneurs. This book tells the story of student achievement, corporate hanky-panky, and one man who stood up to powerful leaders of business trying to stop him.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Joining the Chico State faculty in 1990, Dr. Deberg has taught a variety of courses in financial and managerial accounting and has published several articles in refereed academic journals, serving three years as associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Education. From 1995 to 1997, he served as project co-director of a U.S. Department of Education grant titled 'Reengineering Elementary Accounting.' Dr. Deberg was a leader in reengineering principles of accounting during this time period when CSU, Chico made significant changes in both content and pedagogy in principles of accounting. He is an active consultant in the areas of youth entrepreneurship and community service-learning. He is a former Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow at CSU, Chico (1993 - 2005), serving as advisor the CSU, Chico Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team for 12 years. He is the founder of Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), a program that encourages high school youth to create commercial and social entrepreneurial ventures on their high school campuses under the direction of university students who serve as their business consultants.