Transcript Entrepreneurship at HCC

Entrepreneur-one who organizes, manages,
and assumes the risks of a business or
enterprise
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Current and future entrepreneurs gain in their
knowledge base while at Haywood Community
College.
Assistance comes from:
•The Small Business Center
•Continuing Education classes
•Curriculum Program classes
HCC has taught entrepreneurship in our degree
seeking programs since 1991. We were the first
community college in the state of North Carolina to
use the North Carolina REAL Enterprises training
materials in community college courses. (REALRural Entrepreneurship through Active Learning)
Majors Impacted by
Entrepreneurship Courses
•Accounting
•Business Administration
•Construction Management
•Cosmetic Arts
•Financial Services
•Geospatial Technology
•Horticulture Technology
•Professional Crafts-Clay, Fiber, Jewelry, and Wood
Planned for 2008: Computer Information
Technology and Networking Technology
Curriculum Entrepreneurship Classes
Terminate with Business Plans
REAL Graduation Ceremony
ENTREPRENEURSHIP VIDEO
MODULES GRANT
The Business & Entrepreneurship Department was
awarded a grant for $5,000 to complete an
Entrepreneurship Video Modules Grant by The Coleman
Foundation. The elevator grant was awarded at the
NACCE annual conference in 2007.
To complete the grant the Small Business Center, the
Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, the Haywood
County Economic Development Commission, and 15 local
entrepreneurs were involved.
•Serving on advisory committee of various degree majors
in the Business & Entrepreneurship Department annually
•Local business plan competition with Small Business
Center
•Video Modules Grant Project
•Involvement in presentations to the public about merits
of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Partners with HCC
Smoky Mountain Development Corporation
•Opportunity to complete a high school diploma, an
Associates of Arts degree, and an Associates of Applied
Science from the Business & Entrepreneurship
Department in five years
•Students can begin taking classes from the Business &
Entrepreneurship Department as early as their ninth
grade
•A goal is to have all students in the HEC enrolled in
classes where they are presented entrepreneurship
concepts
A.A.S. in ENTREPRENEURSHIP
HCC is serving as the lead community college in the North
Carolina Community College System to development of a
new degree major in Entrepreneurship. The area of
service is the 7 westernmost counties in the state.
Classes are to be offered as physical classes and online.
New courses in the Entrepreneurship major will include:
•Intro to Entrepreneurship
•Innovation and Creativity
•Entrepreneur Marketing
•Funding for Entrepreneurs
•Entrepreneurship Issues
After graduation in the A.A.S. program in Entrepreneurship
students will be able to transfer to Western Carolina University
receiving two years of credit toward a B.S. in Entrepreneurship.
•Partnerships-Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development
Commission, AdvantageWest, Western Carolina University, NC
REAL, Smoky Mountain Development Corporation
•Regional focus serving 7 westernmost counties in the proposed
Entrepreneurship degree program
•Planned A.A.S. in Entrepreneurship
•2+2 articulation with Western Carolina University
•Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning across
campus
•Infusing entrepreneurship into Haywood Early College
•Completed Entrepreneurship Video Modules grant about local
entrepreneurs to teach entrepreneurship by modeling
•Degree seeking students in 11 majors and continuing education
students enrolling in business planning courses