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Minor in Entrepreneurship Approved - Academy Announced 3/16/2009

Dr. Jack Soper, association Master and the Kahl Chair in Entrepreneurship announced this week that the new Minor in Entrepreneurship has been approved by the faculty of the University. Targeted at any student, regardless of College or Major, Dr. Soper explained that a major goal of the minor is to help our students develop the habits of mind characteristic of entrepreneurial thinking; including innovation, problem-identification and problem-solving, and idea development.

As you may appreciate, going from 0 to 60 in an academic institution is a trick. In what might only be explained as an entrepreneur’s answer to the problem, Jack received a $78,000 grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation to offer up to 10 faculty members an opportunity to participate in developing the syllabi for the courses they will teach in the new Minor! Called the Academy, this initiative will insure that the courses, particularly the first ones to be taught will be ready to go when the students begin to enroll in their courses.

Top programs are made and this new curriculum incorporates the latest thought from the leaders in the field. Although it is rarely accomplished, this minor will leapfrog all but a couple of the very highest ranked schools nationally. This was no accident. Congratulations to Jack, the faculty members of the entrepreneurial learning community and the curriculum committee on entrepreneurship who spent countless hours while lending their professional skills to the development of this truly outstanding offering for John Carroll students.