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Arizona State University Students Learn Business Skills by Running One.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2002
By Lindsey Remington, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 7--Instead of building a business on paper, some Arizona State University students are getting an early glimpse of what its like to own and manage an actual enterprise.
Forty Arizona State University students were chosen out of 600 applicants statewide for an internship to start and run their own outdoor painting business this summer in conjunction with College Works Painting of California. Opened in 1997 and developed by the National Services Group, College Works Painting hires college students and provides them with the supplies and skills that are necessary to start the business.
"We hire college students because they're looking for hands-on experience...
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