Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education 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, academic education, and community-based programs, through infusion within existing courses and by the support of separate courses and programs 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
- 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 at least two additional sponsors annually
- 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, student organizations, and national policy/advocacy groups.
- Consortium staff will recognize 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 successfulentrepreneurship education 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 provide an electronic communications network and data sharing process
- Consortium will support entrepreneurship education programs for professional development.
Contact us to inquire about joining the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium by E-Mail Cashmore@entre-ed.org
Learn more about the Consortium on our websites:
- Entrepreneurship Everywhere - the primary website with a focus for entrepreneurship educators - www.entre-ed.org
- Future CEO Stars, the magazine for students - www.fcsmag.com
- National Entrepreneurship Week - Celebration of the annual week and publicity for entrepreneurship programs in every state, year-round. www.nationaleweek.org
- Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance - YEA, an affiliate division of the Consortium, focused on national policy and advocacy strategies for entrepreneurship education for young people www.YEAleaders.org