More Schools Teaching Entrepreneurs
Baltimore Sun:
Towson University is banking on more students like Anne Marie Rose, a 19-year-old marketing major who started her own company. Rose has big dreams for the jewelry business she launched in her Finksburg home 2 years ago: To transform Anne Marie Rose Jewelry Designs into a national brand.
Such ambitions are prompting hundreds of colleges and universities such as Towson to focus more energy and resources on teaching the know-hows of becoming an entrepreneur.
Schools are adding more courses and other activities to cultivate the business ideas of budding workers who are increasingly bypassing corporate jobs for their own startups.
Towson‘s new program starts in the fall, joining many others in establishing minors and majors in an entrepreneurship education boom.
The move to embrace this academic discipline comes as today’s college students see the business world differently than past generations. With unprecedented access to technology, students can start a business with much less capital and manpower than ever before.
And after watching their parents lose jobs, pensions and other benefits over the years, many students see going out on their own as offering better opportunities and flexibility – despite the risks…
