Sponsored by Small Business Institute®, USASBE Entrepreneurial Support Organizations Division, and USASBE Family Business Division

Session Goals:

• To describe small business consulting as a viable pedagogy in entrepreneurship.
• To promote the Small Business Institute®, as part of the Joint 2006 USASBE/SBI Conference.
• To provide participants with an idea of the hurdles they may encounter.
• To offer participants a source of future information and points of contact should they decide to start a small business consulting program.
  

Session Target Audience:

Anyone that is currently planning to start a small business consulting program or is thinking about starting a small business consulting program. This list includes, but is not limited to, faculty and administrators at any size university, college, two-year college, community college or technical college.

Session Presenters:

Joe Bell, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Shawn Carraher, Cameron University
Kirk C. Heriot, Mercer University

Session Agenda:

• Introduction
• Getting Started: Assessment or Not?
• Important Issues: Financial, Procedural, Curricular, and Supervisory
• Maintaining Momentum for Your Program
• Summary and Conclusions