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Extra credit: extra awareness

School of Business

Bergeron's students taking a quiz in pink

Wednesday, October 27, 2010


Lisa Bergeron, a finance lecturer at the University of Kansas School of Business, interacts with more than 700 students every day she teaches. She used that platform to make her students aware of breast cancer by giving them extra credit for wearing pink to class on Oct. 12.

“My mom has stage-four breast cancer, so building awareness is important to me,” Bergeron said.

The extra credit idea received positive feedback from students, not simply because it helped their grades. “I found it’s really touched a lot of students’ lives,” Bergeron said.

About 90 percent of her students wore pink at both of her classes. Bergeron said when she told her mom about the awareness event, she was very emotional.

This was part of the national campaign to increase awareness of the risks of breast cancer by wearing pink.

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Toni Dixon


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