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First-year college students often take some version of a success course designed to ease their transition into campus experiences.

At Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the freshman success course used to be a series of basic how-to lessons on things like using the library. But when the college decided to move to a guided pathways model, it seized the opportunity for a revolutionary update to the one class that nearly all incoming students take.

The redesigned curriculum had a big mandate. It needed to apply to a more diverse cross-section of the student body, foster an entrepreneurial mindset, unify the students within each of the college’s eight Pathways, and give students a sense of individual identity and self-efficacy.

After learning about the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative’s Ice House model from Marketing and Entrepreneurship Instructor Minden Fox, the team chose to incorporate critical elements of the ELI program into the Strategies for Success curriculum.


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New Podcast Episode - Transforming Organizational Culture By Empowering Employees To Think Like Entrepreneurs With Tom Darling

We often think of government employees as the polar opposite of entrepreneurs. But what could happen if we teach them to think this way, transforming them into empowered employees? In this episode, we are joined by educator and entrepreneur Tom Darling. Tom serves the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico as a Division Manager of their Employee Learning Center. In addition, he has undertaken a radical experiment to teach the city’s employees to think like entrepreneurs. Finally, listen to a fascinating conversation about how managers can empower organizational employees by solving small problems for their coworkers and the people they serve.

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Online Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training

Led by Gary Schoeniger and Rob Herndon, the facilitator training is a blend of pre-recorded lectures, live sessions, group discussions, and activities to immerse individuals in the power of the eight life lessons in the Ice House Programs. This interactive experience is a deep dive into the program philosophy and Opportunity Discovery Process. Regardless of whom you teach or serve, an entrepreneurial mindset provides the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities—leadership, opportunity recognition, problem-solving, collaboration, resourcefulness, adaptability, and critical thinking.

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Ted Dintersmith, What School Could Be: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Education

Ted Dintersmith, the author of the book "What School Could Be," joins us to start the 2022 Entrepreneurship in Education webinar series. This webinar will discuss some of the insights Ted found touring American schools. Firstly, he set out to raise awareness of the need to innovate education to prepare students for an ever-changing world. However, he found that many teachers were already on the case.

Wednesday, January 26 | 1:00 - 2:15 PM ET

Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindsets: In Classrooms, Organizations, and Communities

The world has changed in ways that now require everyone to think like an entrepreneur. After all, entrepreneurs are resilient and resourceful, creative and critical thinkers who possess the 21st-century skills the world now demands. What is an entrepreneurial mindset? Why is it important? And, how can we cultivate it in ourselves and others?

Tuesday, February 1 | 1:00 - 2:15 PM ET


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Applying an Entrepreneurial Mindset to a Tough Economic Reality

Sometimes the students in Assistant Professor James Myers’ Introduction to Entrepreneurship course balk when he assigns them to interview entrepreneurial thinkers in their lives. “Students say, ‘I’m running out of people to talk to!’” said Myers, an Assistant Professor in the business department at Pasco-Hernando State College in west-central Florida.

He replies that they haven’t exhausted the supply—they’re just looking in the wrong places. “You have to go outside your immediate social circle,” he tells them.

Even without knowing the students’ backstories, Myers is invariably correct. His definition of entrepreneurship—the self-directed pursuit of opportunities to create value for others—is shaped by his training in ELI’s entrepreneurial mindset education. Therefore, he doesn’t equate entrepreneurship with running a startup business.

Once his students start to think critically about entrepreneurship, they begin to solve problems about many situations beyond whom to interview next. These life skills apply in any program and industry, regardless of whether students head for the business world.

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