Impact ED: How Community College Entrepreneurship Creates Equity and Prosperity (Resetting Our Future) (Volume 6) - Softcover

Book 6 of 13: Resetting Our Future

Corbin, Rebecca A.; Gold, Andrew; Kerly, Mary Beth

 
9781789047974: Impact ED: How Community College Entrepreneurship Creates Equity and Prosperity (Resetting Our Future) (Volume 6)

Synopsis

This book provides leaders with insights into how entrepreneurial thinking and action can put local communities on the path to recovery from the economic devastation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship offers a roadmap to the future. NACCE members colleges' newly evolved programs benefit local communities, fuel economic growth, and create more equitable opportunities for those who have been historically marginalized. This pathway leads to recovery, hope and a more caring, creative, and equitable society.

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About the Author

Dr. Rebecca Corbin is president and CEO of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), the nation's leading organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship through more than 340 community colleges and universities that serve over 3.3 million students. She is the publisher of NACCE's Community College Entrepreneurship magazine and editor-at-large of NACCE's new book, Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Communities and Students. She lives in Cary, NC.


Andy Gold, Ph.D., is a full-time faculty member at Hillsborough Community College (HCC), located in Tampa, Florida.  He co-founded the HCC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program - The InLab@HCC - an Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation, and a Design Thinking National Center of Practice for NACCE. He also co-created Operation Startup, a partnership between HCC and Hillsborough County designed for Vetrepreneurs to develop and launch businesses. In 2019, Dr. Gold co-created a new Veterans Entrepreneurship Training Program in partnership with Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), a national leader in Vetrepreneurship training, research, and advocacy. He serves as the co-director for this program called Startup Training Resources to Inspire Veteran Entrepreneurship (STRIVE). Born and raised in New York City, Gold is a product of public education, and is a lifelong social entrepreneur having started multiple businesses over the past 23 years.  He currently lives in Tampa, FL.

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