Fall/Winter 2020 Journal
Entrepreneurship offers a roadmap to the future and NACCE member community colleges are showing communities how newly evolved programs can lift local ecosystems one step at a time. This is the theme of NACCE’s recently published new book, Impact ED: How Community College Entrepreneurship Creates Equity and Prosperity, and is highlighted in several articles in this issue.
For instance, NACCE’s Maker Fellow program demonstrates how the creativity inherent in making helps to build the skills necessary for the 21st century workforce and more specifically, the post-pandemic workforce. The 2nd Annual Pitch for the Trades competition, expanded from last year, features five winners who received cash prizes to launch, scale, or support new skilled trade entrepreneurial projects. And, “Design for Delight,” the newest product of the NACCE/Intuit partnership, shows how innovation and empathy merge at the intersection of problem solving.