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 ( ) (est.)

Other Majors Across Campus Involved in Entrepreneurship Program (Including Minors, Students in Co-curricular Programs, and Affiliated Programs) ArtGraphic DesignPhotographyEducation Environmental Studies Media StudiesPublic RelationsBroadcast Communications Video ProductionMusic BusinessEnglishPolitical Science TheaterReligionForeign LanguageInternational Studies Occupational Therapy Physical TherapyNursingPsychology BiologySocial WorkMusicCommercial Music Audio EngineeringPhilosophyHonors ProgramSports 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