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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ad11b24a-38fa-add2-3796-035a0e1bf7a9"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Converse College is an all-women’s college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Converse continues to adhere to its founders ideals, seeking to provide a comprehensive liberal arts education to young women from across the globe. It has received press in past years for lowering its tuition by 43 percent. In 2014, it ranked 23</span><span style="font-size: 9px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">rd</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">among Regional University South’s college rankings.</span></span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students are encouraged to participate in innovative activities, provided provide solutions for campucampus-swide wide problems, and create programs or organizations to tackle them. There is no formalized problem solving or venture creation process, but some channels students can access when looking to implement solutions or open dialogue are the individual study departments, student life offices, student government association, and the president's office.</span>

Converse currently has no formalized function to support student ventures on campus. Students looking for venture support should look to outside sources of information, like the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Social Entrepreneurship Retreat, area businesses such as the Iron Yard, or like-minded students on campus to either start an initiative for a formalized function or receive specialized instruction for their individual ventures.

Converse currently has no formalzied formalized partnerships with companies or groups in the space of I&E, however, individual students have gone on to work with local incubators, labs, art studios, and so on. However, the fruits of these idnividual individual partnerships have not resulted in permanent relationships with the insitution. Converse would fare well to more succinctly create these partnerships, so interested students have pipelines to follow once interested.&nbsp;

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