Successful Outcomes of Teaching Minority Undergraduate Students Entrepreneurial Business Planning Concepts Using Andragogy and Service Learning

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Successful Outcomes of Teaching Minority Undergraduate Students Entrepreneurial Business Planning Concepts Using Andragogy and Service Learning

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Applying andragological techniques and service learning concepts to traditional college age minority students can produce dramatic outcomes. For example, from the Fall 2005 to the present semester, a Professor of Entrepreneurship at two New Orleans bases HBCU' s conducted two classes, (1) an Introduction to Entrepreneurship Class and (2) the capstone Entrepreneurship class, using the above mentioned teaching methodologies. The universities have never participated in any form of a business plan competition nor worked with SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise). The students while completing these two courses entered the Ford HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Business Plan Competition. The Ford Competition received over 900 entries with 200,000 students and 119 universities participating, at the undergraduate and graduate levels participated in the com...

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