Sponsored by the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and USASBE Entrepreneurship Education Division

Session Presenters:

Thomas A. Goodrow, Vice President for Economic and Business Development, Springfield Technical Community College, and Founder, National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship

Session Agenda:

Entrepreneurship Education Partnerships that Work

• Community Colleges and Public Four-Year Institutions
• Community Colleges and Private Institutions
• Community Colleges and Universities

Developing Entrepreneurship Education Articulation Agreements for Student Transfer and Matriculation

• Successful practices and existing models
• Managing curricula development
• Ways to cut through the institutional bureaucracy among educational partners.

Identifying Joint Fundraising Strategies to Support Institutional Partnerships

• Raising money makes everyone happy
• Successful practices of joint fund raising efforts
• Making the pie bigger: Entrepreneurship at all educational levels

Entrepreneurship Across the Campus

• Success for one institution is good; success for many institutions is greater
• Creating a demand for entrepreneurship education that is seamless
• Cultivating a pipeline of student entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship faculty and administrators

Thinking Big-Starting Small: Taking the First Step Towards Collaboration

• Benefits of working with small private/public colleges versus large private/public colleges
• Creating value early and often with institutional partners
• Letting go of traditional partnerships models
• Embracing new and innovative partnership models

Conclusion

• National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship 2006 Annual Conference
• Vehicle for institutional connectivity
• Sharing the community college culture
• Building professional/personal relationships at all levels of higher education