Miller Advances to Nationals with CMU Enactus Team

2016 May 2

Anthony Miller is a member of the Central Methodist University Enactus team, that has for the fourth consecutive year, qualified to participate in the National Exposition, set for May 15-17 in St. Louis.

Miller is a business major from Fair Grove.

Enactus is an international community of students, academic leaders, and business leaders committed to using entrepreneurial action to enable human progress. CMU's team is one of more than 500 undergraduate Enactus groups in the United States.

The CMU Enactus team earned the right to participate at Nationals by winning "League Champion Honors" for its presentation at Enactus Regional competition at Rogers, Ark., in April. CMU was judged as a top team in its five-college league at the regional event. Fifteen teams in the Midwest Region out of 25 advanced from regional competition to nationals.

"It is both an honor and a privilege to be able to work with the CMU Enactus team," stated Julie Duerst Bennett, associate professor and chair, Division of Accounting, Business and Economics. Bennett is also an ENACTUS Sam Walton Fellow.

"They are talented, hardworking students that blend a competitive spirit with the desire to succeed," Bennett added. "They have a strong sense of integrity and desire to bring about positive change, both locally and globally. I am very proud of the projects that they have accomplished."

The Arkansas event was one of six Enactus regional competitions across the country. At regionals, teams are rated on their presentation of projects they executed that year. CMU Enactus projects undertaken this year included:

• Build-Your-Business: a project aimed at assisting the community by helping numerous local businesses (three specific businesses were noted in the competition) gain the skills they needed to start and/or expand their businesses.
• Pink Week: a project uniting 26 organizations, it helped to educate more than 1,000 individuals about breast cancer, and raise more than $1,300 for the Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks.
• Financing Your Future: a "Money for Middles" project teaching 50 area middle school students the money concepts of earning, saving and spending.
• Safe Water Saves Lives: a project enabling Enactus to assist in sending one CMU student to Haiti to help with the University's Center for Faith and Services' clean water initiative.

Enactus is an international non-profit organization. More than 1,700 college and university campuses in 36 countries (approximately 70,000 students) participate in the Enactus program.

For more information about the members of the competition, please visit the CMU website.