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Tuskegee University (TU) is an independent and state-related institution of higher education. It is located in Tuskegee, Alabama, which is east of Montgomery, Alabama, and west of the city of Auburn, Alabama.

Tuskegee enrolls more than 3,000 students and employs approximately 900 faculty and support personnel. Physical facilities include more than 5,000 acres of forestry and a campus on which sits more than 100 major buildings and structures. Total land, forestry and facilities are valued in excess of $500 million (Tuskegee University, 2014).

<span style="font-size:large">'''Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus'''</span>

<span style="font-size:large">'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship'''</span>

Tuskegee University’s student innovation and entrepreneurship is a novel initiative with administrators, faculty, and students. This historic HBCU hopes to advance and develop new technologies though investments in innovation and entrepreneurship with its students and community. To catalyze the innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) initiative TU has collaborated with National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), University Innovation, and Stanford University.

TU has been a leader in the areas of basic and applied research for many years.&nbsp; Through fields like advanced materials, biotechnology, environmental science, engineering and biomedical research, Tuskegee is finding new ways to advance the safety and security of our world's citizens.&nbsp; Within TU’s centers of excellence and academic units, it is engaged in many areas of cutting edge research.&nbsp; Its faculty, students (both graduate and undergraduate), and staff are engaged in research that is critical to addressing the needs of modern day governments, corporations and citizens.&nbsp;

<span style="font-size:large">'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function'''</span>

In 2012, TU President Gilbert Rochon established the Office of Innovation and Sustainable Development. This office will be responsible for implementing and managing initiatives of the Tuskegee University Foundation, as well as developing and directing the Tuskegee University Research Park, expanding off-campus research venues and developing a center for entrepreneurial leadership and a social business ventures facility. The social business ventures facility will be a collaborative project with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus and the facility will serve as a national hub for innovative entrepreneurial ventures to solve social problems and create jobs. &nbsp;

<span style="font-size:large">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span>

Goals of this partnership are to develop course modules to enhance teachers' presentation of science courses and student learning, to develop 3-D simulation of science experiments to enhance students' understanding of process that take place and precautions to observe in science laboratories and to train teachers in the delivery of course modules and student motivation.