School:Johnson C. Smith University
Johnson C. Smith University
Overview
Johnson C. Smith University is a private HBCU that sits at the highest point in Charlotte, North Carolina. Established in 1867, JCSU has a rich history in advancing and expanding the potential of its students.
JCSU is making leaps and bounds in advancing Institutional Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Promoting student Innovation and entrepreneurship
HBCU.vc
HBCU.vc is an experience-based learning opportunity in venture capital and tech entrepreneurship. Our student investor program works with students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to teach investment fundamentals and entrepreneurship. to act as investors to fund local tech entrepreneurs and build startup communities in and around their campuses. During the program, students learn from investors and entrepreneurs as they work to identify investment opportunities, perform market research, and make funding decisions. It gives students the real world experience needed to jumpstart careers in their chosen paths.
JCSU CEO
JCSU CEO is the student run JCSU chapter of CEO. The events and activities are designed to empower and engage students through Networking, Competitions, and experienced Speakers.
FreshStart
FreshStart Program
Charlotte Start-up Weekend
NSF Innovation Corps Program
Koch Entrepreneurship & Innovation Scholars Program
UNCF Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fellows Program
NASA Tech Innovation Program
Up and coming
Venture Capital Research Charlotte Ecosystem Research Summer Venture Research Program BioDesign Challenge Future of Innovation Series
Actively supporting the university technology transfer function
Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship
Otinerburu sustainability villagePatent office
Sustainability village Otinerburou Stukes
Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration
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Johnson C. Smith is a partner institute to Google's secondary education programs where students are given the ability to expand and apply their computer science skills and knowledge. Incoming freshmen are selected from a wide range for the Google Computer Science Summer Institute prior to starting their first year. This program operates on the campus of JCSU, where 20 incoming freshmen learn web development and soft skills over three weeks while learning the environment on campus. The upperclassmen are also encouraged to be involved with Applied Computer Science, where they apply their lessons from class to android app development to create intuitive apps.
IBM
JCSU CSE Department is partnering with IBM on curriculum that explains how to work with Enterprise Cloud Computing Systems. This means that large companies (like IBM) use different systems than we use in our day to day computing environments. So, there is an added skill set needed to understand how to connect with and program these enterprise systems.
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Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts
Johnson C. Smith University has strong connections with the surrounding charlotte community. Community involvement is strongly ingrained in the campus and academic culture, where all students are required to participate in 10 hours of community service and every organization on campus host events to volunteer within Mecklenburg county. The school of Social Work has a graduation requirement of 400 field hours with a local organization. The Center for I&E at JCSU has involved itself with the community of startups and venture capital firms within the Charlotte ecosystem. They have hosted meeting for small businesses and local entrepreneurs. In the near future, JCSU will launch a Small Business Innovation Research Program that will service as a pathway to increase student involvement and accelerate innovation on campus.
Landscape Canvases & Conclusions
Related Links
Fall 2018 Fellows