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Creating and inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs to help restore the prosperity of Northeast Ohio! |
The Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Engagement (SEE)
August 2007
The Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Engagement (SEE) is an innovative new educational program designed to develop the economic and entrepreneurial intellect of high school students and open their minds to how they can use what they’ve learned to create economic opportunities for themselves and the community.
SEE is a complete, free, highly flexible, turn-key course of study that includes all program materials, lesson plans, and multiple optional program extensions that a teacher can choose from to tailor into a mini-course of study that can be integrated into virtually any existing economics, business, social studies, or other high school class.
The SEE program is a collaborative initiative of Economics America Cleveland Center of Ashland University, Cleveland State University’s Nance College of Business, and SEE Program Author and Director, John Klipfell.Why the SEE program is necessary from a community perspective…
- A little more than hundred years, arguably, Northeast Ohio was the “Silicon Valley” of its day. Once the fifth largest city in the United States, Cleveland was one of the largest and most important hubs of industry, commerce and research in the country.
- During the intervening years however, the economic vibrancy of our region waned, jobs were lost, prosperity turned to recession, and confidence turned to despair.
- Somehow during those years, many of our citizens apparently forgot how our free enterprise system works. Further, they ceased to remember that it was the entrepreneurial spirit of earlier generations that imagined answers to problems, innovated solutions, and invested the time, talent and treasure that created jobs and economic opportunity in our community.
- Fortunately, progress is beginning to be made in putting together the necessary venture capital, incubator, resource infrastructure and development programs needed to eventually restore that prosperity. However, what is missing is a high school education program that plants the seeds of entrepreneurship in the youth of our region, with the goal of eventually creating and inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs to rebuild our region’s prosperity. That’s where the Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Engagement fits in.
- Whether as a result of technological change, global competition, or simply changing tastes and wants, the amount of change that the high school students of today can expect to see over their lifetimes is staggering.
- Unlike previous generations of Americans who hoped to get a good job and keep it until they retired, those entering the work force today, may by various accounts hold eight, ten or more different jobs during their lifetimes, some of which may well be of their own making. Indeed, some have predicted that as many as nine out of ten college graduates today will likely start their own business sometime during their lifetime.
- While the thought of becoming an entrepreneur may never before have entered the minds of today’s high school students, they may well find themselves becoming one in the future. In any case, by understanding what it takes to become an entrepreneur, through the SEE program, they will be more prepared to understand and deal with the changes of the future.
What you will find on this Site:
Information about the SEE program:
2. Explanation of the SEE program and how it works
3. What the student will learn from the SEE curriculum
4. What makes the SEE program unique
5. How the Ohio Academic Content Standards apply to the SEE program
6. SEE contact information and acknowledgements
Teacher and student program materials:
8. Student reading – Free Enterprise Articles Series
9. SEE Program introduction letter to students
10. Student business plan assignment and instructions
11. How students can receive CSU course credit for completion of the SEE
12. 2007/2008 SEE Master Program Schedule