Today USASBE we heard from several schools about their innovative programs aimed at taking entrepreneurship education across their campuses during the Coleman Pre-Conference on Taking Entrepreneurship Across Campus. This pre-conference was organized and hosted by Belmont University.
Participating schools highlighted the following innovations at their schools:
- St. John’s University presented their video cases on entrepreneurship.
- Juniata College offered some great details on hos to run a student seed venture fund.
- Bay Path College summarized several features from their innovative entrepreneurship program .
- University of Portland presented their initiative to infuse entrepreneurship across their campus through faculty grants.
- Drake University summarized their integration of entrepreneurship with their School of Pharmacy.
- Beloit College provided details on their student run Art Gallery.
- Simmons University reviewed their integration of entrepreneurship with Nursing and Social Work.
- I summarized our campus-based businesses, which includes our three retail student created, student run stores at Belmont University.
- Millikin University presented their model for the integration of entrepreneurship and the arts at their Blue Connection art gallery.
- University of Illinois-Chicago reviewed their long standing operation of the national student organization, Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization (CEO).
As part of the pre-conference we introduced a new website called Sandbox that will allow for educators to share best practices and collaborate about problems and challenges they are facing as they grow their entrepreneurship programs. This site will go live in February. It is being developed by Belmont's own, Andy Tabar. Andy is the student I blogged about early who is a finalist in this month's ideablob.com idea competition. Ideablob.com is one of this year's new sponsors at USASBE.
It is amazing to see the explosion of innovation that is taking place around the country. It is great to see that so many colleges and universities are trying to help educate the future leaders of our entrepreneurial economy.
