About the Liberal Arts & Entrepreneurship Program

Rick Coplin `85, Venture Development Officer, TechColumbus and Sam Brownell `08 during a Venture Plan Workshop.

Students know they have to build a wide range of interdisciplinary skills that give them maximum flexibility and preparation for the future. They want to learn how to recognize opportunity, harness the resources to exploit that opportunity, exercise their creativity, create sustainable solutions, take the inherent risks, and participate in the rewards.

 Opportunities may be realized in four ways and are not mutually exclusive:

1. Commercial: opening a new business.
2. Intrapreneur: promote innovation or introduce new products or services or markets in existing firms.
3. Social: create charitable organizations designed to be self-sustainable.
4. Public: focus on innovation and customer service in government agencies.