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Enterprise Projects: Experiential Learning In Applied Entomology, Mark D. Shelton

Office of the Dean (CAFES) Scholarship

During 1924, when jobs for college students were difficult to find in San Luis Obispo, Calif., a group of entrepreneurial students at the California Polytechnic School negotiated an $80 bank loan from a local lender to raise chickens. Parents and college faculty cosigned the loan, and thus was born the Agricultural Enterprise Program.