Pathways to the Future
Long Range Strategic Plan
Vision: An organization recognized as the national leader in advocating entrepreneurship education as a lifelong learning process.
Mission: The Consortium Champions Entrepreneurship Education and Provides Advocacy, Leadership, Networking, Technical Assistance, and Resources nationally across all levels and disciplines of education, promoting Quality Practices and Programs.
- Promoting the incorporation of entrepreneurship education across all levels of career technical and academic education, through infusion within existing courses and by the support of separate courses developed in entrepreneurship..
- Encouraging participation of partnerships with business, industry, agency and trade associations, and bringing together diverse groups within the consortium whose interests foster economic development through entrepreneurship education.
- Encouraging teacher education institutions and accrediting groups to incorporate competencies of entrepreneurship into teacher training curricula.
- Modeling research projects to recognize successful ventures into entrepreneurship, and development of competencies of entrepreneurship.
- Sharing with consortium members the educational activities, programs and strategies being implemented to incorporate entrepreneurial concepts into the instructional and guidance service activities.
- Providing a focal point for the planning, organizing and promoting of entrepreneurship education efforts
Goals of the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium
- The Consortium will attract members committed to the development and promotion of entrepreneurship education across the nation and the world.
- Each member will work actively to attract another state member or associate member.
- Benefits of membership will be packaged attractively to attract attention of potential members.
- The Consortium will attract two additional sponsors during the coming year.
- The Consortium will develop projects that attract external sponsorship for the benefit of the members.
- The Consortium will clearly position itself as the primary advocacy and resource group for entrepreneurship education for grades K-14 and adult education.
- Members will advocate for the consortium's mission at the state level with governmental and association groups.
- Consortium staff will build active partnerships with business associations, faculty associations, and student organizations.
- Consortium staff will analyze the needs of all types of members.
- The Consortium will strive to meet the needs of its members for materials and models of teaching entrepreneurship.
- The Consortium will develop new opportunities for sharing curriculum materials at regional sites throughout the year.
- The Consortium will develop, collect, and share models for researching the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and partner with interested researchers.
- The Consortium will continue to update and share materials on school-to-work transition models.
- The Consortium will publish the newsletter featuring articles by members on topics of interest.
- Consortium staff will plan a FORUM in conjunction with other organizations.
- Consortium staff will develop an electronic communications network and data sharing process
- Consortium will support entrepreneurship education programs for teacher preparation with cost benefits for member states.
Contact us to inquire about joining the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium by E-Mail Cashmore@entre-ed.org
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