School:City College of New York

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OVERVIEW

Rockhurst University is a private, coeducational Jesuit university located in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910, the school observes the following motto: "Sapientia Aedificavit Sibi Domum." Latin for, "Wisdom has built herself a home." Sitting on a 55 acre, urban campus, Rockhurst is home to approximately 2,200 undergraduate and 800 graduate students, who enjoy a faculty:student ratio of 1:12. The University has etched into their campus bell tower a principle very much alive on campus, Learning, Leadership, and Service in the Jesuit tradition."

Offering over 50 graduate and undergraduate programs, Rockhurst's most popular majors include: Business, Management, Marketing, Health Professions, Psychology, Biological and Biomedical Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, was reported at 86% by US News in 2014. The school's newest academic building, Arrupe Hall, boasts a 500-seat, state-of-the-art auditorium, and houses the majority of all undergraduate and graduate classes.

The university focuses on leadership, experiential learning, critical thinking and service. Regularly ranked among America’s top universities, Rockhurst University is known for small class sizes, high graduation rates, commitment to service, and overall value.

STUDENT INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Currently, the community at the City College of New York (students, faculty and alumni) have minimum exposure when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship. This is for many reasons, and largely is due to lack of faculty and student initiative to improve these conditions. As we progressed through UIF training, we made it our goal to engage the students' body, learn from our peers, and find ways to inspire, motivate, and create initiatives to foster that community of innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Zahn Innovation Center:

• The Zahn Center is CCNY’s first and only startup accelerator and incubator. It aims to support CCNY’s most dedicated student innovators by allowing them to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, funding, and office space - while maintaining status as a student.

TEDx CUNY:

• Independently organized TEDx talks throughout the City University system of NYC bring powerful and credible stories directly to students. Throughout the CUNY system, student organizations have organized TEDx Salons, which are lower lift talks with high level impact.

Entrepreneurship Student Club:

• ESC brings together students from all different disciplines and acts as a catalyst for change on its campus. The club finds innovative and creative ways to bring raw and exciting personal development to the students of CCNY. The club has run several workshops and discussions of I & E to a school that needs it dearly.

The Campus:

• The Campus magazine showcases accomplished students initiatives and significant changes in CCNY’s I&E atmosphere. The publication allows those who feel like their dreams may not become a reality to view actual examples of students who made things happen.

Conversations in Leadership

• The Colin Powell School for Global Leadership brings accomplished businessmen, entrepreneurs, and inventors to our small campus. These leaders inspire the student body to reach out towards the existing resources on campus that many take for granted.

City College Fund

• The City College Fund remains transparent with students and leaves its doors open. The fund gladly welcomes students initiatives with open doors and wallets. The fund has been known for working with administration in identifying which student led projects deserve funding and supports them with connections as well.

Undergraduate academic programs in entrepreneurship:

• ECO C0026 Managing Business Complexity
• Entrepreneurship: Women & Diversity
• ECO - 41250 Entrepreneurship Course
• ECO 42000 - Internship

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FACULTY INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Zahn Center Venture Competitions
• Zahn Center Incubator/Accelerator

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UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

= CUNY CAT - The CUNY Center for Advanced Technology promotes industry-university collaborative research and development and spurs industrial economic impact through applied research, technology transfer in commercial arenas and encouragement of faculty entrepreneurship. The CUNY CAT is sponsored by the New York State Department of Economic Development, Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) and The City University of New York.

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Venture Accelerator

= The Zahn Innovation Center, located in the Marshak Science building and Grove Engineering school helps students build their businesses from idea to MVP.

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UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION

TEDxCUNY Salon

Rap-Si

GPS Navigators

Career & Professional Dev. Institute

REGIONAL & LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS

• Career & Professional Development Institute (Career Fairs - once a semester for business and engineers)
• The City College Fund
• The Zahn Innovation Center
• The Roosevelt Institute

LANDSCAPE CANVAS

View the Fall 2016 Landscape Canvas

RELATED RESOURCES

University Innovation Fellows // Fall 2016

Mahmoud Khedr

Kurt Dawiec

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