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Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Experiences into
Non-Business Courses
The Virtual Enterprise Summer 2012 Faculty Development Seminar
Friday, June 1st and Saturday, June 2nd -- New York City, NY.
Seminar Mission
The "Strategy for American Innovation," issued by the White House,
calls
on the nation's colleges to prepare graduates to innovate in the
workplace and thereby contribute to the nation's economic growth.
Regardless of whether a graduate has majored in the arts, sciences or
business, he or she will seek employment in a workplace that prizes
those who can work with others and think creatively. Many such
graduates will become "intrapreneurs" who lead project teams and
development efforts within existing firms or entrepreneurs who create
new products and businesses.
Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a series of modular activities and events through which students in classrooms of any discipline develop realistic, commercially viable projects. It is an active-learning pedagogical framework that blurs the lines between business and the underlying disciplines as students take a holistic view of their firm, learning what is required to be successful. Soft skills are integral to these processes. Since the exercises are student-led, and products/services are student-conceptualized and dynamic, learners are continually engaged in problem identification and problem solving.
This seminar will present the Virtual Enterprise pedagogy and how it can be integrated into classrooms of any discipline. The ideal participants are college faculty members and workforce grant writers who are seeking a method of infusing business-readiness and entrepreneurship skills into program proposals. Seasoned implementers of Virtual Enterprise are invited to give short talks.
Venue and Participant Registration
The seminar will be held in Manhattan, New York City at:
The Field
Center for Entrepreneurship |
CUNY Baruch College
Vertical Campus, Room 2-140 | 55 Lexington Avenue (corner of E24th Street and Lexington)
| Dates: | Friday, June 1st (12:00pm – 5:00pm) and Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 (9:00am – 3:00pm) |
| Cost: | free for participants from accredited institutions of higher learning. |
| Contact: | Edgar E. Troudt edgar.troudt@kbcc.cuny.edu |
| Register: | REGISTER NOW
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| Deadline: | May 20, 2012 |
Call for Presentations
We invite experienced VE implementers to give 10-minute talks at the
seminar. Those interested in doing so should
submit proposals
and if
they wish, may also send four-page conference papers or 10-minute
YouTube videos. We prefer in-person talks but will consider those
given via remote conference technology. Talks should be given on one of
the following topics:
- The most and least innovative VE businesses that my students
created and managed and how I supported them throughout the experience.
- The most innovative VE group exercise that I developed and what
my students learned from it.
- The VE events that had the largest impact on my students and
their struggle to prepare.
- The biggest challenge I faced in adopting VE for the first time
and how I overcame it.
- What I tell my colleagues about VE to encourage them to try the
pedagogy.
- How my interactions with other VE instructors improved my VE
classes.
Submissions
of 500 word abstracts are due by Wednesday,
April 25th
and may be submitted via the conference website. Presenters will be
notified by May 1st as to their time-slot at the seminar.
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