Source: www.bigpicture.org
Topic: Entrepreneurship Education
Sort Desciption: Preparing Students for the Future: Studying Entrepreneurship The knowledge, skills, creativity, and thinking required to be an entrepreneur are the foundation of the Big Picture College philosophy.
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Preparing Students for the Future: Studying Entrepreneurship
The knowledge, skills, creativity, and thinking required to be an entrepreneur are the foundation of
the Big Picture College philosophy. The essence of Big Picture College is entrepreneurial and it
follows that the first academic major offered will be entrepreneurship. It is not enough that our
students "lend" their ideas or creativity to corporations, projects, industry, etc. We intend for Big
Picture College graduates to be prepared to chart a new path for jobs and technologies that do not
yet exist. Our students education will not be outdated by the time they graduate four years later.
Instead they will be prepared to generate the new knowledge required to solve complex problems
and compete in the global economy.
Entrepreneurship education helps develop the skills that students need to be successful regardless
of the career path they choose—students graduating from the Big Picture entrepreneurial program
will be prepared to see opportunity and solutions where others are prepared to see the "right"
solution. This allows for career flexibility that students might not have if they studied another
discipline. Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, has said
that jobs in the new economy—the ones that wont get outsourced or automated—"put an
enormous premium on creative and innovative skills." In 2006 Tuckers center published a report
called Touch Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce .
That report argued that "The best employers the world over will be looking for the most competent,
most creative, and most innovative people on the face of the earth and will be willing to pay them
top dollar for their services. This will be true not just for the top professionals and managers, but up
and down the length and breadth of the workforce ...
