THE EXPERIENTIAL CLASSROOMBecoming a Great Entrepreneurship Educator

NO XVIII

GAINESVILLE FLORIDA SEPT 21-24 2017

Brought to you by the University of Florida & Warrington College of Business

ABOUT THE PROGRAMThe Experiential Classroom is a three-day clinic designed to provide scholars creative and innovative ways to teach entrepreneurship, develop entrepreneurship courses and build entrepreneurship programs. This dynamic workshop is intended for faculty members who previously have not taught entrepreneurship as well as experienced faculty searching for new teaching techniques.

The Experiential Classroom introduces highly-creative and effective experiential approaches that faculty—from any background—can successfully apply to their teaching.

Delegates will be exposed to elite entrepreneurship programs and engage with world-class faculty to build a network of resourceful educators they can rely on for years to come.

And, in the entrepreneurial spirit, participants in this workshop will learn by doing. In addition to learning experiential methods from today’s top entrepreneurial scholars, participants will apply what they have learned during live teaching sessions.

HISTORYThe Experiential Classroom was launched in Fall 2000 as part of the Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Education Professionals (LLEEP) partnership. The partnership was formed in 1998 when a group of leading educators met to explore the future of entrepreneurship education and address the growing need for high-quality teachers in the field. LLEEP committed to a core set of clinics dedicated to sharing leading-edge teaching practices

and enhancing teaching skills. The Experiential Class-room emerged as one of the most successful of these clinics, and is now entering its 18th year. This success is tied to a commitment to an experiential approach both in its subject matter and innovative delivery methods. Over 1,100 faculty members from around the world have attended the Experiential Classroom over the past 17 years.

WHO SHOULD ATTENDTHE CLINIC IS PRIMARILY INTENDED FOR FIVE KEY AUDIENCES:

1 Current faculty members from any discipline who are retooling to teach entrepreneurship

2 Entrepreneurs planning to return to the classroom to teach entrepreneurship courses

3 Adjunct faculty teaching entrepreneurship part-time

4 Ph.D. students and faculty new to teaching entrepreneurship

5 Center directors coordinating entrepreneurship programs

REGISTER ONLINE : warrington.ufl.edu/experiential

FOR INFORMATION: Dr. Michael MorrisGeorge & Lisa Etheridge Professor of EntrepreneurshipWarrington College of Business, University of Florida(352) 273-0329 | michael.morris@warrington.ufl.edu

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PROGRAM STRUCTUREA fast-paced, content-rich program that includes thirty distinct topical sessions, with some split session options. Features twenty-five leading educators in the field as presenters and facilitators. Sessions are organized into four categories: content of entrepreneurship, experiential and pedagogical innovation, curriculum and course design, and patterns/directions in entrepreneurship education.

A CLINICAL TRADITION“See one. Do one. Teach one.” The great clinical tradition in medical education is an appropriate and valuable standard for entrepreneurship education. Our intention is to foster intellectual and practical collisions between the academic and the real world in everything we do, thereby enhancing entrepreneurship education and research throughout the world. Our foundation can be traced to the pioneering practices of leading institutions during the past 30 years to recruit and educate successful entrepreneurs and their like-minded faculty colleagues to teach entrepreneurship. We believe that an entrepreneur-ial education must be linked to the real world; that research must be relevant and impactful; and that teach-ing must incorporate practice and hands-on learning.

EXPENSES & REGISTRATIONThe fee for the three-day clinic is $1,700. This includes all sessions, a resource binder and materials, six meals and local transportation. Delegates are responsible for lodging and travel expenses. A limited number of partial USASBE scholarships are available to those with financial need. Enrollment will be limited to 70 delegates on a first-come, first-served basis. Register online at: warrington.ufl.edu/experiential

VENUE, SCHEDULE & LODGINGDATES: September 21-24

SITE: Warrington College of Business on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Delegates must attend all three days. A special conference rate of $119 per night is available at the Holiday Inn-Gainesville University Center in Gainesville, Florida. Visit www.theuniversityhotel.com or call (352) 376-1601 (mention that you are with UF’s Experiential Classroom).

OBJECTIVES

HELP those who are new to the teaching of entrepreneurship, including both faculty and practitioners, to learn best classroom practices;

CAPTURE the experiences of those who came to teaching of entrepreneurship from diverse backgrounds and share les-sons learned in making the transition;

INTRODUCE a number of highly creative and effective experiential ap-proaches, ranging from cases, business plans and the use of entrepreneurs in the classroom, to having students conduct entrepreneurial audits, the concept of marketing inventions and consulting engagements;

APPLY a simple but powerful frame-work for organizing the content within an entrepreneurship course;

DEMONSTRATE effective teaching approaches by observing master teachers;

SHARE ideas on specialty topics in entrepreneurship education, such as how to kick off a class, creative mentoring pro-grams, what’s new in entrepreneurship internships and much more;

EXPOSE delegates to a rich resource base and help them join a network of faculty who share similar experiences;

GIVE delegates an opportunity to actually teach live in front of students, with helpful critiques from entrepreneurship faculty;

SHARE insights on how to build world class entrepreneurship programs.

GAINESVILLE FLORIDA SEPT 21-24 2017

THE FACILITATORS

Dr. Michael Morris, Clinic Director, University of Florida

Dr. Donald F. Kuratko, Indiana Univ.

Dr. Rebecca White, U of Tampa

Dr. Tawnya Means, Univ. of Florida

Dr. Jeff Stamp, BoldThinking LLC

Dr. Ernest Cadotte, Univ. of Tennessee

Ms. Nola Miyasaki, University of Florida

Ms. Debbi Brock, Wingate University

Dr. Alex De Noble, San Diego State

Dr. Karl Vesper, Univ. of Washington

Dr. Ray Smilor, Texas Christian Univ.

Dr. Leyland Pitt, Simon Fraser Univ.

Dr. Minet Schindehutte, Syracuse University

Dr. Rich Lutz, University of Florida

Dr. Rubin Pillay, Univ. of Alabama Birmingham

Dr. John Mullins, London Business School

Dr. Dileep Rao, Florida Int’l Univ.

Dr. David Newton, UC San Diego

Dr. Alex Bruton, Mt. Royal Univ.

Mr. Kevin Woelfel, Univ. of Idaho

Dr. Jerry Katz, St. Louis Univ.

Dr. Fred Sturdivant, University of Florida

Mr. Jamie Kraft, University of Florida

...and a number of special guests