Friday, July 13, 2007

University Entrepreneurship in the CCCU?

Every year our Business students win some of the top awards in the state for new business ideas, yet they never start any of these wonderful concepts. Why not? And why don't any CCCU schools do work in this area that I can find except maybe Grand Canyon and Grove City (both on the fringes of our movement).

I wonder, therefore, whether it's time for our CCCU schools to start doing what a lot of other institutions have done and develop their own "entrepreneurship" programs that include potential start-up training and funding for these ideas. Check out, for example, the following university websites as examples.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges

http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2006/august/159880.html

http://www.smallbusiness.com/wiki/Directories:University_Entrepreneurship_Programs

http://epe.cornell.edu/

http://sba.udayton.edu/entrepreneur/

http://www.asu.edu/ui/entrepreneurship/