ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

• Entrepreneur-one who organizes, manages, and
  assumes the risks of a business or enterprise
• Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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• Current and future entrepreneurs gain in their
  knowledge base while at Haywood Community
  College.
• Assistance comes from
• The Small Business Center
• Continuing Education classes
• Curriculum Program classes

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CURRICULUM PROGRAMS

• HCC has taught entrepreneurship in our degree
  seeking programs since 1991. We were the first
  community college in the state of North Carolina
  to use the North Carolina REAL Enterprises
  training materials in community college courses.
  (REAL-Rural Entrepreneurship through Active
  Learning)

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• Majors Impacted by Entrepreneurship Courses
• Accounting
• Business Administration
• Construction Management
• Cosmetic Arts
• Financial Services
• Geospatial Technology
• Horticulture Technology
• Professional Crafts-Clay, Fiber, Jewelry, and
  Wood
• Planned for 2008 Computer Information
  Technology and Networking Technology

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Curriculum Entrepreneurship Classes Terminate
with Business Plans
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REAL Graduation Ceremony
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• ENTREPRENEURSHIP VIDEO MODULES GRANT
• The Business Entrepreneurship Department was
  awarded a grant for 5,000 to complete an
  Entrepreneurship Video Modules Grant by The
  Coleman Foundation. The elevator grant was
  awarded at the NACCE annual conference in 2007.
• To complete the grant the Small Business Center,
  the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, the
  Haywood County Economic Development Commission,
  and 15 local entrepreneurs were involved.

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Community Involvement

• Serving on advisory committee of various degree
  majors in the Business Entrepreneurship
  Department annually
• Local business plan competition with Small
  Business Center
• Video Modules Grant Project
• Involvement in presentations to the public about
  merits of entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship Partners with HCC
Smoky Mountain Development Corporation
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Haywood Early College

• Opportunity to complete a high school diploma, an
  Associates of Arts degree, and an Associates of
  Applied Science from the Business
  Entrepreneurship Department in five years
• Students can begin taking classes from the
  Business Entrepreneurship Department as early
  as their ninth grade
• A goal is to have all students in the HEC
  enrolled in classes where they are presented
  entrepreneurship concepts

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• A.A.S. in ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• HCC is serving as the lead community college in
  the North Carolina Community College System to
  development of a new degree major in
  Entrepreneurship. The area of service is the 7
  westernmost counties in the state.
• Classes are to be offered as physical classes and
  online.
• New courses in the Entrepreneurship major will
  include
• Intro to Entrepreneurship
• Innovation and Creativity
• Entrepreneur Marketing
• Funding for Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship Issues

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Partnering with WCU to Develop a 22 Program in
Entrepreneurship

• After graduation in the A.A.S. program in
  Entrepreneurship students will be able to
  transfer to Western Carolina University receiving
  two years of credit toward a B.S. in
  Entrepreneurship.

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OUTREACH

• Partnerships-Chamber of Commerce, Economic
  Development Commission, AdvantageWest, Western
  Carolina University, NC REAL, Smoky Mountain
  Development Corporation
• Regional focus serving 7 westernmost counties in
  the proposed Entrepreneurship degree program

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EDUCATION

• Planned A.A.S. in Entrepreneurship
• 22 articulation with Western Carolina University
• Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning
  across campus
• Infusing entrepreneurship into Haywood Early
  College

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DEMONSTRATION/APPLICATION

• Completed Entrepreneurship Video Modules grant
  about local entrepreneurs to teach
  entrepreneurship by modeling
• Degree seeking students in 11 majors and
  continuing education students enrolling in
  business planning courses