Muscatine Community College Joins NACCE

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MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE JOINS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP (NACCE)

NACCE Leads Entrepreneurship Through Community College Programs

MUSCATINE, IOWA – AUGUST 10, 2012 – Muscatine Community College (MCC), in Muscatine, Iowa, has joined the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), the nation’s leading organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship through community colleges. Now in its 10^th year, NACCE is a major force in entrepreneurship education, spearheading a national movement among community colleges to develop a new breed of educators and administrators dedicated to helping underserved entrepreneurs start, run and grow thriving companies.

"We are pleased to welcome MCC to NACCE,” said Heather Van Sickle, NACCE executive director. "NACCE thrives because of the willingness of its members to share information about how to build strong entrepreneurship programs. We know MCC will benefit from being part of our community as will the entrepreneurs and small business owners it serves in Muscatine and the surrounding area.”

"Joining NACCE fits perfectly with the many exciting things happening in the entrepreneurship arena here at MCC,” said Bob Allbee, president of Muscatine Community College. "NACCE provides great resources to grow our program, our students and our community.”

NACCE includes nearly 300 colleges in the U.S. and abroad, representing over 1,400 entrepreneurship education professionals. Through these educators, approximately 465,000 students are exposed to the possibility of putting their newly acquired skills and knowledge to work in their own business, if not immediately then at some point in the future. In addition, countless small business owners and entrepreneurs benefit from education, mentoring, and other important services provided by NACCE members.

About NACCE

NACCE connects community college administrators and faculty with knowledge and successful practices regarding entrepreneurial thinking, entrepreneurship education, and student business incubation. NACCE holds an annual conference and symposium, publishes a quarterly journal, hosts monthly webinars and podcasts and a dynamic list serv, develops Web resources such as shared entrepreneurship curricula and syllabi for faculty, and creates guides in beginning and sustaining entrepreneurship and student business incubation programs as well as tips for grant proposals specific to entrepreneurial endeavors at community colleges.

For more information, visit http://www.nacce.com.

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