By LAUREN MCDONALD lmcdonald@thebrunswicknews.com
When students signed up for Bill Garlen’s upper level business class, they were unaware they’d be tasked with solving some of the most significant challenges facing fishermen in McIntosh County.
That assignment wasn’t mentioned until weeks into the spring semester, when the students at College of Coastal Georgia learned what sort of entrepreneurial endeavor they’d be graded on for class.
Garlen’s class has spent the past couple of months determining the feasibility of creating a co-op for a group of shrimp boat captains in McIntosh County. A colleague in the college’s School of Business and Public Management connected Garlen with the Community and College Partners Program, a nonprofit that identifies problems in communities and connects them to college programs that can offer assistance.
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