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Fortunately, community colleges have proven their ability
to seek opportunities and meet challenges to better serve
their colleges and communities. Applying entrepreneurial
principles enables educators to approach entrepreneurship
pedagogy with greater purpose, shifting the culture to seek
out and welcome new cultural and experiential competencies
and become co-creators who lead by example, just as
entrepreneurs do.
As J. Noah Brown, President and CEO of the Association of
Community College Trustees, noted in Community Colleges as
Incubators of Innovation (NACCE, 2019),
A recurrent theme, and now an imperative, is the reality
that if we are to meet the challenges of the second
century of the community college movement, we must
begin to think and behave very differently. We should
start with what we think we know now, remember what
we’ve forgotten, and be comfortable with what we don’t
know about the future. In short, to navigate successfully
to meet the needs of students and communities, we
must adopt an entrepreneurial mindset—letting our
passion dictate our direction while exercising moral
courage and risk-taking to shift the curve of decision
making by rejecting the status quo.
The NACCE-Verizon Innovative Learning program provides
free technology, Internet access, and next-gen technology-
infused curriculum to change the way STEM instructors
teach and students learn.
Rebecca Corbin is President and CEO, National
Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.
Visit www.league.org/node/22050 for the reference list.
CALL FOR
MANUSCRIPTS
Shine a light on your community college’s innovative programs, projects, and initiatives!
The League maintains an open call for manuscripts* for these monthly publications:
Learning Abstracts
Leadership Abstracts
Innovation Showcase
Member Spotlight**
www.league.org/callformanuscripts
*Submission criteria apply
**Member colleges only
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