Ivy Tech Establishes Faculty Of Entrepreneurship & Innovation | WBIW – Business News

BLOOMINGTON – Ivy Tech Group Faculty established a brand new Faculty of Entrepreneurship & Innovation in fall 2021 geared toward helping Indiana entrepreneurs. The Faculty was launched in partnership with Regional Innovation and Startup Schooling (RISE) to supply an Entrepreneurship Certificates (CT) program that may be accomplished in as little as two semesters (16 credit score hours).

Dr, Ronda Taylor

“Even earlier than the pandemic, small companies had been struggling to search out success, actually because homeowners had a ardour and a ability for creating a terrific services or products, however they lacked the instruments wanted to successfully run the enterprise,” mentioned Dr. Ronda Taylor, Dean of the Garatoni Faculty of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Ivy Tech. “Our program is ready as much as present sensible expertise college students can put into motion instantly round subjects resembling advertising and marketing, financials, human sources, and authorized issues.”In response to the Small Enterprise Administration, about half of all small companies fail inside the first 5 years. Frequent causes embrace poor planning, administration missteps, and insufficient funding. There are greater than half 1,000,000 small companies in Indiana and so they make use of greater than 1.2 million folks.

Ivy Tech’s Entrepreneurship Certificates program supplies programs and sources for teaching, mentorship, and an “Ivy Shark Tank” expertise the place college students pitch their concepts to traders for funding. It’s provided at campuses in Bloomington, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and South Bend, with plans to increase the certificates program in fall 2022 to Columbus, Lake County, and Evansville campuses. At the moment, 75 college students are a part of the primary 4 cohorts that started in fall 2021, and at the least 120 extra are anticipated to enroll in a brand new set of cohorts this spring.

Ivy Tech Bloomington enrolled 19 college students in its inaugural cohort and is at present accepting functions for Fall Semester 2022.

For college students attention-grabbing in beginning the Entrepreneurship Certificates program at Ivy Tech Bloomington, contact Dr. Sydney Mmadi, division chair, at [email protected] or 812-330-6312.

To be taught extra, go to www.ivytech.edu/study-entrepreneurship.