Entrepreneurship at Millikin: Fall 2011 Edition
"Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value."
- Warren Buffett
A Note from the Director
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Millikin University has been engaged in developing opportunities for our students to experience ownership "up close and personal." Presently, our students are running an art gallery, a record label, fine art printing studio and a theatre company. While these student ventures give them real life experiences of paying sales tax, figuring product costs and marketing a product or service, the real value is recognized when they build their own entrepreneurial ventures.
This newsletter features the many ways in which our students are performing early and often by turning their passion into opportunity, marshaling resources and taking the risk on the pathway to ownership.
Sharon T. Alpi
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship
Coleman Foundation Professor in Entrepreneurship
Featured Articles
Millikin Extends Entrepreneurship Offerings through a Minor for Non-Business Majors
Student Launches Microfinance Fund
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Ideas inc.
Ideation and Resource Competition Workshops
First Step FastTrac Continues to Help Community Entrepreneurs
Student-run Ventures
Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre Hosts Fall Season Launch Party, The Blue Print
Blue Connection Goes on the Road
First Step Records Seeks the Assistance of Entrepreneurship Students to Determine Feasibility of an Imprint Record Label, Blue Box Records
Faculty Spotlight
Two Faculty Join the Fellows in Entrepreneurship Program
Entrepreneur in Residence Programs: Bruce Nims and Dennis Schwieger
In the News
Millikin's Arts & Entrepreneurship Program Mentioned in the Huffington Post
Dr. Stephen Frech, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Presents "A Palace of Strangers is No City"
Mary Garrison, Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Chosen Illinois Social Worker of the Year