Changes

The Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program creates a multi-year, learning experience for Berea students to practice and implement Entrepreneurial Leadership in rural communities of Central Appalachia. The EPG teaching approach is expressed in the EPG Cycle of Abilities for Entrepreneurial Leadership. That cycle centers on six core learning goals of the program: engaging complexity and uncertainty, exploring values and ethical structures, facilitating group decisions, recognizing opportunity, mobilizing resources and advocating for change. Through this program, Berea College selects  20 competitive Berea College  students to participate in an 8-week summer institute. EPG cohorts focus on creating a more sustainable economy mobilizing the area's resources: Adventure tourism industry.  Cohort 12 submitted the Berea Trail Town application to the state of Kentucky as a project to boost Berea’s local economy. On November 10th 2015, Berea was officially certified as a Kentucky Trail Town. In fact,  Berea’s Trail town approval was one of the fastest processes thanks to the cascading model adopted by EPG program.