FAYETTEVILLE -- A $600,000 gift will allow more students to enroll in a hands-on business class at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
The Frank and Judy Fletcher S.A.K.E. Fund will support the entrepreneurial course of the same name, Students Acquiring Knowledge through Enterprise. Students in the course operate ForeverRed, a business that sells diploma frames and other products.
"Judy and I want S.A.K.E. to grow and expand in many ways," Frank Fletcher said in a statement released Tuesday by UA. "We want more students to have the chance to experience 'real business' while they're in college."
The course was first established at UA in August of 1996 and typically enrolls 15 students each semester, Carol Reeves, UA's associate vice provost for entrepreneurship, wrote in an email to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. With the gift, next semester about 30 students will participate in the program, according to Reeves.
Metro on 11/25/2015