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NACCE ON THE MOVE
NACCE’s Next Leap Forward:
the New E-ship Agenda
What Is the New E-ship Agenda and How Do We Meet It?
Editor’s Note: During NACCE’s Annual Confer-
ence in October, a group of NACCE members and
NACCE President and CEO Rebecca Corbin conducted
in-depth focus groups as part of a strategic planning
process to chart NACCE’s future direction.
P
ivoting from NACCE’s recent 15-year anniversary and its
evolution as a leader in entrepreneurship during the past
decade and a half, faculty, administrators and board members,
challenged themselves to answer questions about how NACCE will
meet new challenges – expressly by not relying on the same things that
got it to where it is today.
Prompted in part by the John Maxwell quote: “No matter where you
are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where
you are won’t get you the next level,” members talked about issues in
four major areas: culture and leadership, teaching tools, resources and
engagement.
The focus groups were facilitated by: Tim Mittan, a Business and
Entrepreneur instructor at Southeast Community College in Milford,
Nebraska; Tim Putnam, director of the Pappajohn Entrepreneurial
Center at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa;
and Diane Sabato, professor of