NACCE Webinar: Entrepreneurship: Creating Pathways from Community Colleges to 4-year Schools
Date: 9/16/09
Time: 4:00 EASTERN

A promising effort is underway in California's Central Valley to create a replicable model for how community colleges and four-year schools can partner to build an entrepreneurial education pathway that takes students all the way from high school through to successful self employment. Now entering the third year of a three-year initiative funded by the Coleman Foundation, the program is already producing promising results.

The Community College Entrepreneurial Pathway is a unique partnership that has resulted in consistent curriculum and programs across 10 community colleges and California State University, Fresno.  The goals are to:  build a higher level of knowledge and skills among young adults by building an "Entrepreneurial Pathway" from high school, community college to four year college; to prepare students to launch their own business at any point along the pathway; and to bring consistency to the delivery of entrepreneurial education in the Central Valley.

Presented by;
Marianne Dunklin, Ph.D. , Project Director,  Fresno City College
Genelle Taylor, Associate Director  California State University, Fresno