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John Carroll University Launches Student-Run Social Enterprise Food truck provides JCU students real-world experience creating, managing, and evolving a local business while working with communities in need The Center for Service and Social Action (CSSA) at John Carroll University is launching a studentrun food truck business. By day, the truck will serve Cleveland’s full-pay lunch market. On select evenings and weekends, the proceeds from the daytime business will be used to provide low- or no-cost hot meals to customers who are homeless. JCU students will explore the social, political, and economic dimensions of running a local business while applying course knowledge, gaining real-world experience in entrepreneurship, and increasing their knowledge
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of the needs, strengths, and realities of diverse populations in the city. “With this project, we set out to take experiential education at John Carroll to the next level,” said Sister Katherine Feely, director of the CSSA and the innovator behind the food truck initiative. “Our students are applying classroom concepts to bring a student-designed, student-run business to market, and by using their profits to provide the same menu options to customers who are homeless, they’re learning how business success
