Student Entrepreneur Programs
If you have an entrepreneurship program at your college then consider yourself lucky. Back at my old school, Pace University, entrepreneurship programs were nowhere to be found. In fact, I believe that the first entrepreneurship club was started during my last semester, let alone an actual course or program for the students.
It’s great to see colleges such as ASU taking entrepreneurship so seriously. Their Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative Program offers a wide selection of opportunities for entrepreneur students wanting to get their business off the ground.
They have an annual $200,000 fund for start-ups which they will provide office space, training, and even mentoring. Programs such as this go a long way in helping spark that entrepreneurial spirit that so many of us have but never act upon.
We see it over and over again, colleges preparing students to become middle-level managers to work for corporations for the rest of their lives. When was the last time you had a professor encourage you to start a business?
We have a long way to go until entrepreneurship programs become the norm in colleges throughout the country and until that time, we’re going to have to rely on the encouragement of one another and from those who have already taken the path of entrepreneurship to push us in the right direction.
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