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collaborations to make it a reality,” says Anthony Pisapia, Tower Hill’s assistant head of school for academics.
One student is creating a marketplace to connect students who need service oppor- tunities with organizations that need vol- unteers. Another has developed an online venture developing fashionable turbans
says Melissa Harrington, associate vice president for research. For science and technology majors, an individual research project is a requirement for earning a bachelor’s degree. “It’s not just theoreti- cal. They’re doing something that leads to new knowledge,” she says.
In Delaware State’s College of Business
of business law, plus business planning and modeling. Class assignments fre- quently include networking and attend- ing Chamber of Commerce events.
“We get away from the textbook,” Hall says. “It’s not pie-in-the-sky stuff,” he adds, noting that his students have gone on to start businesses like power washing, a yoga studio, a diner and a food truck.
Both Delaware State and Delaware Tech have collaborated with Horn in developing aspects of their programs. “As a small state, we look at our en- trepreneurship programs as a cohesive group,” Hall says. “We don’t try to compete. We support each other.”
While training in entrepreneurship poses challenges for today’s educators in both high schools and higher education, it also offers hope and promise for the future.
As the Department of Education’s Wilson notes, “we have to prepare today’s students for jobs that don’t yet exist.” ID
scaping service that serves a dual purpose: catering to people who cannot care for their yards while providing employment opportunities for low-income teens.
“The whole idea is to get them past
a fear of failure,” Pisapia says. “Seeing them move forward on their projects is pretty exciting. They think they’re really onto something.”
THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
At Delaware State University, students’ greatest opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship come through engag- ing in research with faculty members,
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Center for the Study of Innovation Management promotes research by fac- ulty and students to develop new entre- preneurial models by blending traditional business subjects with areas like psycholo- gy, sociology and cognitive science.
THE RIGHT SKILLS
As a two-year school offering as- sociate degrees, Delaware Technical Community College offers program- ming that is practical and intensive, says David Hall, instructional coordinator for business technologies. Students learn how to write a business plan, the basics
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