Community Colleges and Entrepreneurship

How one new organization is using community colleges to help accelerate new venture creation in America

By Erik Pages Entrepreneur.com

A few weeks ago, we wrote about how America’s community colleges could play a critical role in spreading the entrepreneurship message across the country http://www.entrepreneur.com/Your_Business/YB_SegArticle/0,4621,303866,00.html Well, it seems like somebody already got the message.

A new organization, the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship http://www.nacce.com/ is up and running, and dedicated to the mission of using community colleges to accelerate new venture creation in America.

One of their goals is to encourage more community colleges to offer entrepreneurship training. At present, only 9 percent of them do so. Seems like the NACCE has an important job to do. To learn more, visit http://www.nacce.com.

Erik Pages is a policy director with the National Commission on Entrepreneurship http://www.ncoe.org/ a Washington, DC, nonpartisan organization funded by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership that focuses on public policy on entrepreneurship.

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