usasbe 2008 model undergraduate program belmont university nashville, tennessee
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USASBE 2008 Model Undergraduate Program
Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee
Innovativeness and Uniqueness
Experiential Opportunities
• Practicing Student Entrepreneur Program
• Campus-based Business Program
Practicing Entrepreneur Program
• Hatcheries and Incubator• Student Entrepreneur Roundtables• Accounting Clinic• Entrepreneurial Excellence Endowed Grant
Fund• Belmont Student Business Plan Competition• Belmont Network Mentor Program
Student Business Hatcheries
Campus-Based Business Program
• Student created – Student run Businesses– Three retail businesses– Three service businesses
• All are partnerships with other programs on campus
Campus-Based Businesses: Retail
Feedback Clothing
This and That
Boulevard Gallery
Service Campus-Based Businesses
• Boulevard Design – Graphic Design Firm
• Tower Creative Consultants – P.R. Firm
• Campus radio station – being developed
Moench Endowed Speaker Series
Quality and Effectiveness
Faculty
• Full-time Faculty– Dr. Jeff Cornwall– Dr. Mark Schenkel– Mr. Jose Gonzalez
• Current Adjunct Faculty– Mr. John Wark– Mr. Matthew Wilson
Student Outcomes(Comparing entering with exiting responses)
• an increase in ability to secure needed resources to launch a business venture
• an increase in knowledge to start and manage a business of their own
• an increase in their intention to launch a business after graduation
• an increased ability to reduce risk and uncertainty for a new venture
• an increased confidence in their ability to establish and achieve goals for new ventures
Student Outcomes
• 33.05% of our majors/minors have started a business while in the program
• 87.18% of those businesses still operating
• 30% of most recent graduating classes started businesses – 100% still in operation
Enrollment History of Declared Entrepreneurship Majors
First Five Years of the Program (2004-2008)
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 (est.)
Other Majors Across Campus Involved in Entrepreneurship Program
(Including Minors, Students in Co-curricular Programs, and Affiliated Programs)
Art Graphic Design Photography Education
Environmental Studies
Media Studies Public Relations Broadcast Communications
Video Production Music Business English Political Science
Theater Religion Foreign Language International Studies
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy Nursing Psychology
Biology Social Work Music Commercial Music
Audio Engineering
Philosophy Honors Program Sports Management
Student Effectiveness: Competitions
• Delta Epsilon Chi
• SIFE
• Business Plan Competitions
Completeness and Comprehensiveness
Curricular Programs
• Entrepreneurship Major
• Entrepreneurship Minor
Foundations in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Financial Management
Entrepreneurial Venture Management
Entrepreneurship Electives (6 cr.) – •Service Learning in Entrepreneurship•Family Business•Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture•Internship Credits (3 cr.)•Other Business Elective
Business Tool and Core Courses (40 cr. BBA requirements)
Human Resource Management
Entrepreneurship Major Requirements
Foundations in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Financial Management
Entrepreneurial Venture Management
Business Ethics
All Requirements of their non-business major
Integrated Accounting(6 credit course)
Entrepreneurship Minor Requirements
In-class Activities
• Local live case studies
• Experiential exercises
• Class speakers
Entrepreneurship Club
• CEO
• Delta Epsilon Chi
• Community Service
Sustainability
Funding• Endowments
– Jack C. Massey Chair– Moench Entrepreneurship Lecture Series– Entrepreneurial Excellence Grant Fund
• Grants– Coleman Foundation– Local Foundations
• Gifts– Business Plan Competition– Entrepreneurship Club
Support from Administration
• Faculty lines
• Staff support
• Budgetary funding
• Part of College of Business Mission
• Strong support from Senior Administration and Development
Entrepreneurship Across Belmont Initiatives: Building an Entrepreneurial Culture
• Campus-based businesses
• Non-business major hatchery
• Convocation Lectures
• Guest lectures in other programs
• Community connections
• Faculty developments programs
Campus-based Businesses
• Self-sustaining funding
• Succession planning
Transferability
Coleman Funded Projects
• 2007 USASBE Pre-conference– Sharing program innovations
• 2008 USASBE Pre-conference– Web-based collaborative