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Seeding Entrepreneurship Across Campus: Early Implementation Experiences of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative

Entrepreneurship has long been a fundamental aspect of American society, serving as
an important contributor of economic growth. However, only recently has
entrepreneurship begun to develop as an academic field in U.S. colleges and
universities, and entrepreneurship programs on campus are most commonly found in
business schools.

Because entrepreneurs and innovative ideas can arise from within any
academic discipline, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has encouraged the expansion
of entrepreneurship programs and activities campus-wide to provide educational
opportunities in entrepreneurship to all students, regardless of their field.

To this end, in
2003, the Foundation launched the Kauffman Campuses Initiative (KCI) in eight U.S.
universities. The universities together received a total of $25 million in five-year grants from
the Foundation and committed to raising an additional $75 million in support of their pledge
to make entrepreneurship education available across their campuses.

To examine how the KCI grants were used, the Foundation contracted with
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) to conduct an in-depth implementation study of
the initiatives developed on the eight campuses. The study provides insight and
documentation for other universities considering implementing campus-wide
entrepreneurship initiatives and provides the KCI universities with feedback to help them
refine their initiatives. Data collection for the study includes two rounds of site visits—the
first in spring and fall 2005 and the second in spring 2009—that include focus groups with
students and faculty and interviews with key program stakeholders. Also included in the
study are two faculty surveys (in spring 2006 and spring 2009) and two student surveys (in
the 2006–2007 and 2009–2010 academic years).

This report provides a cross-site analysis of
the universities’ implementation experiences during the beginning of their KCI grants, based
primarily on information collected during the first round of site visits and through the first
faculty survey.1
1 MPR produced individual site reports on the early implementation experiences of each of the eight
KCI universities.
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Lara Hulsey
Linda Rosenberg
Benita Kim

Full Report: http://www.kauffman.org/campuses/Cross-SiteReport.pdf

Further Information about the Kauffman Collegiate Entrepreneurship Resource Center: http://www.kauffman.org/campuses/

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Making Place Matter

AASCU has joined with the Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS) and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) to conduct Making Place Matter, a two-year project designed to:

• Raise awareness of regional stewardship and its application
nationwide among state college and university leaders and their state
and regional stakeholders and;

• Work intensively with a select number of state colleges and
universities and their regional and state partners to better equip the to serve as catalysts for regional stewardship.

Full Report: http://www.aascu.org/mpm/default.htm

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