Syracuse Entrepreneurship Classroom

The Syracuse Entrepreneurship Classroom (SEC) is an intensive, one-of-a-kind program designed to provide non-business faculty who recently started teaching entrepreneurship courses at a college or university setting an opportunity to learn from experienced entrepreneurship educators. SEC provides an ideal platform for educators from all disciplinary backgrounds to share trials and tribulations, exchange ideas, and acquire different perspectives on "how" to fuse entrepreneurship and any other discipline. 

The Focus
SEC focuses on how to infuse entrepreneurship into any discipline. Over the course of three days, SEC participants are exposed to some of the most innovative approaches to teaching entrepreneurship developed by accomplished entrepreneurship faculty from across the U.S., including faculty from Whitman's top-ranked Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. 

On college campuses nationwide, entrepreneurship has emerged as one of the fastest growing areas of new curricula and programs. More students are realizing that the ability to recognize the relationship between opportunity and risk and to solve problems in an ‘entrepreneurial’ way represents a competitive advantage in life and work, whether on their own or in their careers with others.

Entrepreneurship informs art and architecture, engineering and agriculture, and virtually every other discipline that exists on a college campus. SEC participants:

1. Define for themselves and their students what entrepreneurship is, and how it relates to:
   - their chosen academic discipline, and
   - a competitive advantage in life and work
2. Perform an objective review of the critical steps necessary for developing a sustainable business and/or organizations across different contexts and disciplines
3. Demonstrate integrated use of tools and approaches to effectively teaching entrepreneurship
4. Develop customized learning modules, using entrepreneurship resources, tools, and pedagogy to reflect the needs of each participant's primary constituency
5. Identify opportunities for using entrepreneurship as a means to connect students to the world outside the walls of the university

Ultimately, the primary purpose of the Syracuse Entrepreneurship Classroom is to assist faculty without any formal entrepreneurship or business school background in becoming familiar with fundamental principles, practices and applications. Participants gain insight into how to leverage the power of entrepreneurship across disparate academic disciplines by developing an understanding of entrepreneurship as a philosophy for life. This approach reflects a focus on one’s ability to recognize opportunity, conceptualize innovative concepts, and champion ideas through implementation.

Dates for the 2010 SEC program will be announced soon.

For more information about the SEC program, contact  Lindsay Wickham, events coordinator for the Falcone Center, at (315) 443-3550.