Discover Our Faculty
Faculty members from Urbana and Chicago campuses meet every year at the Faculty Fellows Retreat. The photo above was taken during the 2010 Faculty Fellows Retreat at Illini Center in Chicago, May 6-7.
Resources for Instruction
Organizations | Teaching Resources | Publications on entrepreneurship education | Research Conferences | Civic Entrepreneurship - Curriculum Resources | Retreat Powerpoint Presentations
Organizations
These organizations are among those interested in entrepreneurship education at the college level. They provide resources such as syllabus examples, model curricula, and other teaching resources.
- Collegiate Entrepreneurship Resource Center (Kauffman Foundation)
- USASBE - U.S. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship - entrepreneurship faculty association
- University Network for Social Entrepreneurship
- National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
- Small Business Institute
- National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship Education
- Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
- Consortium for Liberal Education and Entrepreneurship
Teaching Resources (Including Syllabus Examples, Case Studies)
The Organization section lists groups that provide a variety of teaching resources. The following represent additional resources.
- MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT course syllabi - search for entrepreneurship terms
Example: Developmental Entrepreneurship, a graduate course on the founding, financing, and building of entrepreneurial ventures in developing nations and emerging regions. - Educators Corner - Stanford Technology Ventures Entrepreneurship Education Resources
- E-Clips: Cornell's Video Clip Collection on Entrepreneurship, Business & Leadership
- Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook
- Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University
- Case Studies in Entrepreneurship
- Biographies of Entrepreneurs
Publications on Entrepreneurship Education
- Journals
Each discipline typically has one or more journals that focus on education in that field. These are an outlet for your own writing or a source for entrepreneurship education research and teaching strategies. - Publication outlets - The following journals are among the many that have published articles on entrepreneurship education in universities.
- Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Education + Training
- International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Journal of Education for Business
- Journal of Management Development
- Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- Journal of Small Business Management
- Technovation
Tip: Search the literature database of your own field, or search Ebsco Business Source Complete, through the UI Library Gateway, to identify further resources.
- Report -- University-wide Entrepreneurship Education: Alternative Models and Current Trends http://epe.cornell.edu/
Research Conferences that Include Entrepreneurship Education
As a primary focus or one track -
calls for papers and conference announcements
Tip: Most disciplines have faculty associations that host conferences with an education theme. Entrepreneurship education may be among the topics. Examples include the American Society for Engineering Education, and Frontiers in Education (engineering).
- Entrepreneurship Research Portal
Includes a database of events and deadlines related to entrepreneurship conferences, calls for papers, and other entrepreneurship research events. - Educators Corner (Stanford STVP) - Conferences
- USASBE
- Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
- National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
- National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
- Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers (REE)
Instructor Preparation Focused Meetings
- Price-Babson SEE - Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators
- Babson-Olin SyE3 - Symposium for Engineering Entrepreneurship Educators
Faculty position announcements
Each field has its own outlets for advertising faculty positions. These resources are supplementary to those outlets.
- USASBE News
- Academy of Management Placement Service
- University Network for Social Entrepreneurship - Career Job Board
- Chronicle Careers
- HigherEdJobs
Civic Entrepreneurship - Curriculum Resources
- Scholarly Literature on Civic Entrepreneurship and Related Topics
- Bibliographies and Book Announcements
- Course Materials
- Additional Resources – Publications, Organizations
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Retreat Powerpoint Presentations
Download presentations from 2009 Faculty Retreat:
- Social Entrepreneurship and Community-based Learning: Where Theory & Practice Intertwine, by Ann Abbott (1.2MB)
- Institutional Entrepreneurship @ Illinois, by Rajshree Agarwal (1.2MB)
- Entrepreneurship in Design, Diversity, Environment and Behavior, by Kathryn Anthony (10.3MB)
- Intellectual Entrepreneurs in Academe, by Liora Bresler (409KB)
- Bringing Institutional Entrepreneurship into the Classroom, by Susan Frankenberg (2.3MB)
- Minor in Entrepreneurship, by Laura Hollis (943KB)
- Digital Resources for Entrepreneurship Education, by Cindy Kehoe (4.3MB)
- Community-Based Learning in Subsistence Marketplaces, by Madhu Viswanathan (7.9MB)
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