U News 1 | U of Arkansas announces new Student Business Incubator
The University of Mississippi will host its sixth annual "Entrepreneurship Summit" later this week.
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville:
There’s a new Student Business Incubator at the University that will pay students full-time and also provide support via expert workshops, mentorship, and co-working space. Overseen by the University of Arkansas’ Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OEI), the incubator will launch in the summer of 2025 and run from June to August.
The program was conceived to help undergrads with fledgling business ideas and provide a dedicated program to help them develop their business models, according to Zoe Buonaiuto, OEI’s Director of Business Incubation.
“This pilot student incubator provides students with an opportunity to get paid full-time to validate their ideas and receive expert guidance, with the goal of successfully launching and growing by program’s end.” she said.
Applications are open to current undergraduate students, including seniors who are graduating in May 2025.
Students will be hired by OEI and paid $20 per hour — bi-weekly — with an expectation of 40 hours a week from June 2 through August 5. Each accepted business can have up to two participating students.
Buonaiuto said she plans on accepting five “exceptionally strong companies” for the cohort after interviewing 15 of the top applicants. “It is an all-inclusive experience for student founders willing to dedicate 10 intense, full-time weeks to the program,” she added. “We’re thrilled to support Razorback entrepreneurs.”
From the University of Mississippi:
The University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) will host its sixth annual “Entrepreneurship Summit” on November 7 in the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union. The free event aims to inspire students to create their own businesses.
“We want to engage students of all majors,” said Tong Meng, Director of Programs and an instructor at the CIE. “Everybody on campus and in the community is welcome to attend the summit.”
Ole Miss alumnae Morgan Stanley, Co-Founder and President of BrainTrust, and Tanner McCraney, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Rumie, are keynote speakers for the event.
From the University of Alabama at Birmingham:
More than 200 people filled the Medical Properties Trust Commons recently for the 3rd Annual Information Systems (IS) Tech Expo at the University’s Collat School of Business. The event, which focused on the progressive use of artificial intelligence by Birmingham businesses, connected business students with information systems professionals while raising $11,000 for student scholarships.
“It was an inspiring event for Birmingham’s technology community,” said IS Professor Sam Thompson, Ph.D., one of the event’s organizers. “Students were able to meet with local tech leaders and glean helpful insights from them, all with the goal of propelling UAB and Birmingham forward.”
Collat’s Information Systems Advisory Council and the Department of Management, Information Systems & Quantitative Methods, and Graduate School of Management hosted the expo, which featured a mixer with nearly 50 working professionals and 150 students followed by a panel discussion.
From Northeastern University:
Staff at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute recently partnered with Maine State Prison to offer a group of incarcerated men the chance to engage in an entrepreneurship brainstorming workshop.
For four hours, 22 men at the correctional facility in Warren, ME became entrepreneurs as part of Idea Jam, a rapid-fire entrepreneurship workshop program. The participants brainstormed and pitched a series of creative solutions to a real-world challenge to a panel of judges.
“The prisoners that we worked with are people who may have limited options if they do leave,” says Anna Ackerman, Entrepreneurship Program Manager at the Roux Institute. “We’re thinking about what their options are upon leaving prison, and entrepreneurship is actually one of the options that is most readily available to them and is well suited for them. They are able to solve problems based on their experience that other people might not be able to.”
Working with Warden Nathan Thayer, the program specifically targeted a group of people who hadn’t participated in educational opportunities at the prison. The end result was a workshop that reached people who hadn’t previously benefited from this kind of programming, partly by focusing on a challenge that hit close to home for many of them: substance use.
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From Tufts University:
Tufts University, which offers a wide range of professional and graduate degree programs across its eight schools, does not have a business school. Amid its 198 graduate and certificate programs, 56 doctoral programs, 100 master’s programs, and 42 certificate programs, there are no options for an advanced degree in business, nor is there a business major for undergraduate students interested in the field.
The entrepreneurship minor, however, is the most common for undergraduate students. Tufts has helped produce many examples of successful entrepreneurship. Many Tufts graduates have gone on to launch successful start-ups in diverse fields, contributing to technology, entertainment, and social impact.
Many of the courses offered in the entrepreneurship minor are provided by the Derby Entrepreneurship Center. Known as the DEC, it is the hub of business and innovation at Tufts and is part of the Gordon Institute at the Tufts School of Engineering. The DEC offers more than 30 undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, and management.
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