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<span style="color:#800080"><u>'''<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-large">James Madison University</span></span>'''</u></span>

<font size="1">Sarah Rozman</font>

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;James Madison University faculty is our greatest supporters and most encouraging resource for innovation and entrepreneurship. Not only does the faculty of all disciplines explore their personal entrepreneurship and strive to create more innovation within their discipline, they push each individual student to explore their full potential. Faculty of James Madison University have highly successful businesses and companies that set examples for the way they encourage student to achieve prominent entrepreneurship. Whether students want to start a business, sell products, invent new technology, or design innovative ideas of the future, there is a faculty member who has been in that situation and know the right steps to inspire the student to fulfill his or her goals in creating a pathway towards entrepreneurship. Faculty, in the past, has seen the need for classes and organizations to establish and encourage entrepreneurship to help bring student ideas into a reality. There has been so many examples but as one, in 2005, faculty created a venture creation class to open entrepreneurship to undergraduate students, who had ideas in the past, but were in need for professional backing to ensure their path to a successful startup creation. Faculty not only encourages from a professor standpoint, but also as mentors and advisor. Within every club and entrepreneurial leadership program on campus, a faculty advisor dedicates their professionalism to the club. This dedication keeps an even broader range of resources open needed to continue the pathways students are creating. The faculty has also help bring together students who promote leadership within their disciplines, and given them the encouragement to collaborate. The faculty has played a role in building these leadership programs, and continues to encourage and stay involved, making themselves members of the organization themselves.&nbsp;

'''<u><span style="font-size: medium">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></u>'''