The Center for Entrepreneurship in the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University has announced the new Coleman Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows awardees.
They are Steven Skinner from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Ngoyi Bukonda, Toni Pickard and Ron Stephen from the Department of Public Health Sciences.
The fellows program is sponsored by the Coleman Foundation. The purpose is to increase and build support for entrepreneurship education across the WSU campus.
The faculty fellows will engage in projects that foster self-employment education and strengthen the efforts to grow entrepreneurship education.
They were selected from a number of applicants because of their desire to enhance student learning in their areas as it relates to entrepreneurship. Enhancements may include:
- Creating and teaching an entrepreneurship class within their discipline that leads to the course becoming an ongoing offering
- Modifying an existing course by incorporating elements of self-employment education to the course, leading to it becoming an ongoing offering
- Sponsoring, advising and supervising student-led entrepreneurship educational efforts such as new student businesses
- Development of experiential entrepreneurship education programs within their department or college
In addition to the naming of the faculty fellows, Lyn Goldberg has been named the Center for Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow for 2009-2010. Goldberg is from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.