Take a virtual journey during Winter Semester to Ghana, West Africa to understand the impact of COVID-19 on education and earn 3-credit hours at the same time!
Meet local university students, business leaders, and community leaders who made efforts to support students as they transitioned to virtual learning.
Register for AAPS300/GVPT368G Corporate Social Responsibility: A Strategy for Sustainable Educational Development to learn more
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic communities in both developed and underdeveloped countries have been impacted on multiple levels. In particular, some of the already vulnerable groups have experienced exponential hardships due to COVID-19. Marginalized communities, populations that live in remote regions, or groups of people that have traditionally been underserved have had to deal with circumstances such as financial loss, food insecurity, and threatened access to educational resources. The course aims to prepare students with knowledge, transferable skills and strategies to achieving social development in local communities domestically and internationally. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is considered a development strategy in which business can potentially bring about positive change in the communities in which they operate. CSR will be considered specifically, within the context of the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus, as many nations mandated/encouraged a transition to virtual operations. The education sector was significantly impacted by COVID-19 but its impact was exacerbated for educators and students in traditionally underserved communities. Educational inequities evidenced by the limited to no access to educational resources experienced by some communities, left a void in which businesses, especially telecommunications companies had an opportunity to engage in CSR to provide resources for education in a virtual environment. The “Student Ambassadors” will explore the extent to which a U.S. and Ghanaian based multinational corporation responded to COVID-19 vis-a-vis the support of educational entities to communities in need.
Watch this short video clip to learn more!
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