Entrepreneurship
Retailers are looking for leaders with entrepreneurial skills and attitudes.
In speaking with industry leaders one of the most consistent comments I hear is that they want entrepreneurs. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a long history of producing graduates with a firm understanding of entrepreneurship. Our graduates learn how to take ownership of ideas, processes and results.
Now the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named a Kauffman Campus and has been given more resources to integrate entrepreneurship skills into programs across campus. The center for retailing excellence is playing a key role in this initiative and our students and their eventual employers will benefit greatly.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is named one of nine Kauffman Campuses.
Gov. Jim Doyle and Chancellor John Wiley announced today that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has named the University of Wisconsin-Madison one of its nine "Kauffman Campuses," and has received $5 million to help train students in the principles and practices of entrepreneurship.
The Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation launched the initiative with the first eight campuses in 2004 to "transform the way colleges and universities prepare students for success in the American economy." The competitive awards are designed to enliven the curriculum with new ways to instill "the spirit and skills of entrepreneurial studies" across academic fields and to expand the role of technology transfer in communities.
"Being named a 'Kauffman Campus' provides an opportunity to broaden our great legacy of teaching, research and outreach at UW-Madison.
"The teaching and learning component of the Kauffman grant is designed to bring entrepreneurship education to a much broader range of students, beyond the traditional curriculum that exists in business programs,“ says Charles Hoslet, managing director of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations.
The plan calls for a number of new student education initiatives, including the development of a residential learning community focused on undergraduate students with an interest in entrepreneurship and establishing new courses in entrepreneurship for students across campus.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which has an asset base of $2 billion, was established in the mid 1960s to advance two core areas: entrepreneurship and youth education.
