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= <br/> OVERVIEW =

[[File:Berea is a private liberal arts college, in Berea, Kentucky that differentiates itself by its ‘free tuition’ policy,&nbsp; its rigorous undergraduate academic programs and its labor program. Founded as the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, Berea admits only academically promising students, who have limited economic resources, especially students from Appalachia. All students at Berea work at least 10 hours per week in more than 130 departments and organizations on and off campus.jpg]] 

== Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) Program ==

<span style="font-size:larger;">'''Idea I'''</span><span style="font-size: larger;">'''dea Bounce:&nbsp;'''</span>Idea Bounce is the first business idea pitch competition among interdisciplinary students in Berea College. It is designed to help students develop and pitch and an idea, receive feedback and earn prize money. It was launched in Spring 2015 by UIF Cohort 2014 and is organized once every semester. Local and regional entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders have been invited as Judges of Idea Bounce in the past. == Berea College Technology Club == Technology Club is an established Berea College club with 20 active members with the mission of . Some of the past and current club activities include: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; *<span style="font-size:larger;">'''UNDRCVR LEX:&nbsp;'''</span>The club created an opportunity for 6 members to visit a technology startup hiring convention in Lexington, KY. The students had the opportunity to speak with emerging startups and technology-based organizations and were encouraged to ask questions to gain a deeper understanding of the startup culture and entrepreneurial mindset as well as practice networking skills.

*<span style="font-size:larger;">'''Design Thinking and Creativity WorkshopLocal Hack Day:&nbsp;'''</span>The club Local Hack day was organized several workshops for students/members as an incentive to promote innovation engage the campus and entrepreneurship through proactive the community into the mindset of coming together and fun activitiessolving a problem in electronics or computer science for 12 hours, without any prior knowledge in coding. The themes of It was organized for the workshops were The Marshmallow Challenge, Build A Chair From Cardboard first time in December 2017 and Build The Fastest Toy Car From Electronic Componentsbrought together about two dozens of students.

*'''<span style="font-size:larger;">'''Weekly Maker CommunityCampus Challenges</span>:&nbsp;'''</span>The club creates a platform for a wide range of interdisciplinary campus challenges are designed to interact with students to have a weekly maker community get together and work on their personal projects. The club officers play the role of sharing knowledge and providing necessary tools and assistance to build on students’ personal projects. This is highly beneficial campus and encouraging for the students who have no prior experience engage them in technology &nbsp;prototyping and designthinking about creative ways of solving challenges through making tangible things.

In the circle of academics, faculty often find themselves repeating what they have done and are comfortable with - highly academic settings with work that doesn't allow for creativity and innovation. We propose to educate faculty by utilizing the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program and the Work on Purpose program which is currently used by Dr. Peter Hackbert in the 8-week (now 6-week) Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program to teach the cohorts about the entrepreneurial mindset. This would instill in the faculty and staff ideas about how to implement entrepreneurial thinking in each of their respective disciplines, thus changing the way the student body thinks.

Though change is never easy, these simple programs do a fantastic job of exposing the entrepreneurial mindset for what it is. In order to create an environment suitable for students to create, innovate, and potentially launch startups, their mentors and educators must first have said mindset to aid them along in their journey.

'''Berea College Office of Career Development '''has partnerships with several companies for students to increase various career development.<br/>&nbsp;It hosts several programs like such as the yearly '''''career fair''''' that bring brings outside industry industries in to recruit students for both internships and full-time positions. It also organizes various events throughout the year to prepare students for internships and life after graduation, like such as&nbsp;'''''Cornell Weekend'''''. Cornell Weekend is an event where MBA student students from Cornell University come to Berea College for a weekend and meet with students to help them with their resumes and do practice interviewswith them. It also provides students with funding for various career development opportunities and graduate school endeavors like funds for professional clothing, grants for grad graduate school application and travel, for job interviews, and attending professional conferences. In terms of innovation and entrepreneurship, outside of Entrepreneurship for the Public Good and their regional contacts that aid their efforts in Central Appalachia, there is no university-industry collaboration.

The Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program selects twenty promising and competent&nbsp;20 competitive Berea College&nbsp;&nbsp;students to participate in an 8-week (now 6-week) summer institute. EPG cohorts focus on creating a more sustainable economy mobilizing the area's resources: Adventure tourism industry. &nbsp;Cohort 12 submitted The Director of the program Dr. Hackbert shares the Berea Trail Town application to work he does in the Appalachia region with his students. The work is generally not known in advance and gets discovered once the new cohort starts the state of Kentucky as a project to boost Berea’s local economyprogram. On November 10th 2015 Cohorts redesign hiking and biking experiences, and other experiences based on the specific needs and vision the program has for the year. They have worked on making Berea was officially certified as a Kentucky Trail Town. In facttrail town, have enhanced cycling experience in Appalachia and have recently finished creating, alongside the Adventurous Cycling&nbsp;Berea’s Trail town approval was one of the fastest processes thanks to the cascading model adopted by EPG program. Association, a North-South bicycling&nbsp;map.

The Center for Excellent Excellence in Learning Through Service department is home for to more than 15 8 community-service programs led by students. The college partners with local nonprofit organizations in order to develop benefit the local economy of the city of Bereacommunity through service programs. Students manage student volunteers for on and off-campus events. Student volunteers get the chance to apply their academic knowledge and critical thinking skills to meet genuine community needs. Through reflection and assessment, students gain the deeper understanding of course content and the importance of civic engagement. Programs Offered: *Berea Buddies*Berea Teen Mentoring*Adopt a Grandparent*Habitat for Humanity*The Hispanic Outreach Project*People Who Care*Berea Tutoring*Service Learning*Community Partnerships*Bonner Scholars

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<br/>Spring 2018:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts Kayla BarbourJulia Roberts]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kayla_barbour Julia RobertsKayla Barbour]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Minashsha%20Zareel%20Lamisa Minashsha&nbsp;Zareel Lamisa]

[[Tran K. Nguyen|Tran Nguyen]]

[[Dylan mullins|Dylan Mullins]]