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New course to help entrepreneurs get started
Rachel Feinberg
Issue date: 10/30/07 Section: Campus News
It is almost time to sign up for next semester's classes, and the Business department is ready. Beginning this Spring, a new class will be offered-Campus Entrepreneur (BUS 306).
The new course is designed especially for students who would like to open their own businesses and is open to any student of any major who is at least at a sophomore standing.
The idea is that at the end of the course, students will be given the opportunity to begin a business on campus. The business will be student owned and operated.
"This course is for students to recognize opportunities and do something with them," said Joe Erba, one of the faculty behind the program.
After students successfully complete BUS 306, they will be given an opportunity to submit a business plan into a competition. If selected, the student will be offered a license to conduct business on the UNCG campus-at-large.
There will be a limited number of licenses distributed each term the course is taught, depending on the number of business plans submitted.
In order to help students with seed money to get their businesses off the ground, Erba explained that the university has teamed up with a local bank, The Bank of Oak Ridge, which is establishing a micro-loan program for the course.
The course is part of the BELL initiative, recently implemented at UNCG to help students learn about and begin entrepreneurship and is the first of its kind throughout the UNCG system.
"Students who take this course don't have to go beyond and start a business," said Erba. "But now they have that choice."
The new course is designed especially for students who would like to open their own businesses and is open to any student of any major who is at least at a sophomore standing.
The idea is that at the end of the course, students will be given the opportunity to begin a business on campus. The business will be student owned and operated.
"This course is for students to recognize opportunities and do something with them," said Joe Erba, one of the faculty behind the program.
After students successfully complete BUS 306, they will be given an opportunity to submit a business plan into a competition. If selected, the student will be offered a license to conduct business on the UNCG campus-at-large.
There will be a limited number of licenses distributed each term the course is taught, depending on the number of business plans submitted.
In order to help students with seed money to get their businesses off the ground, Erba explained that the university has teamed up with a local bank, The Bank of Oak Ridge, which is establishing a micro-loan program for the course.
The course is part of the BELL initiative, recently implemented at UNCG to help students learn about and begin entrepreneurship and is the first of its kind throughout the UNCG system.
"Students who take this course don't have to go beyond and start a business," said Erba. "But now they have that choice."
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