CALL FOR PAPERS
Handbook of University-Wide Entrepreneurship Education
and
Invited Conference at Wake Forest University
Entrepreneurship education is of interest to university students and faculty
outside the walls of the business school. New courses in creativity and
venturing in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences are
increasingly prevalent on campuses both in the U. S. and in other countries.
At some universities entrepreneurship education is taught through business
schools but attracts students from other disciplines. At others, new centers
and funded programs seek to embed entrepreneurial approaches in both
thinking and action in schools and disciplines outside the business school.
Many of these efforts are experimental, lacking guidance from previous
experience on other campuses.
This handbook brings together in one volume a collection of papers that
describe the philosophy, planning and implementation, and examples of best
practices of entrepreneurship education initiatives across the university
environment. The goal of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive guide
for entrepreneurship curricula beyond the business school environment. We
seek contributions in three areas:
Philosophy & Theory. Emphasizing philosophies that provide support for the
fusion or integration of entrepreneurship and other traditional approaches
across the broader university, papers might include:
how entrepreneurship reinforces liberal arts learning goals
entrepreneurship as idealizing democracy
entrepreneurship and free market capitalism
entrepreneurship contributions to humanity
the nexus between entrepreneurship and scientific advancement
Planning & Broad Implementation. Papers that deal with the politics &
process of implementing entrepreneurship initiatives outside business
schools, such as:
specific implementation approaches and program initiatives that have been
developed on different campuses
common problems experienced in this process (e.g. defining entrepreneurship,
communication process) and solution alternatives
issues germane to different types of academic environments (e.g. small
college versus large university) or target populations within universities
(e.g. liberal arts students, women students, African-American students,
Hispanic students, science students, etc.)
measuring performance and the effectiveness of implementation efforts, or
assessing how an entrepreneurship curriculum contributes to learning
outcomes in other areas of the university
Intersections with Other Disciplines. Fine-grained approaches to
implementing entrepreneurship education in major divisions of universities
outside business schools, including:
Humanities
Social Sciences
Arts and Performing Arts
Natural & Physical Sciences
Engineering & Medicine
Within these contributions we seek specific examples of programmatic
material used by contributors, such as sample syllabi, cross-disciplinary
projects, not-for-profit and social enterprise initiatives, and community
outreach beyond the boundaries of the campus, as well as a discussion of
successes, learning, and revision ideas developed.
Submitted papers will be considered for chapters in an edited volume to be
published in 2008 by Edward Elgar.
Authors of papers that generate new avenues of thought, and have the
potential to contribute significantly to further dialogue in the field, will
be invited to a special sponsored conference on entrepreneurship education.
The conference will be held at Wake Forest University's Calloway School of
Business in Winston Salem, North Carolina from November 8-10, 2007, where
the authors will have the opportunity to present their work to some of the
leaders in their fields.
Submitters should send the following:
Electronic copy of your manuscript in MS Word with a title page listing
authors' names, affiliations, and contact information.
The title page should list one of the three categories, listed above, in
which the paper should be considered (Philosophy, Planning, or
Intersections).
A cover letter requesting consideration for the edited handbook and/or
special conference.
These materials should be sent via email to:
Page West
westgp@wfu.edu 336-758-4260 (phone)
336-758-6133 (fax)
Submissions must be received by August 15, 2007.
Key dates to remember:
August 15, 2007 Submit paper
November 8-10, 2007 Conference in North Carolina
2008 Handbook published
Editors for the handbook include
Page West, Wake Forest University
Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Wake Forest University
Kelly G. Shaver, College of Charleston
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