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Non-boundary Governance of Entrepreneurship Education within Higher Education
Introduction
The focus of entrepreneurship and innovation education and research at institutions of higher education ipso facto implies a wish to enhance the quality of graduate and post-graduate business venturing prospects as well as business know-how in the normally pre-entrepreneurial stage. This should happen within a sense-making framework that integrates the research and education agenda for graduate entrepreneurship. Further, an entrepreneurship and innovation education and research approach should be followed that guide the content of the competitive landscape in which the prospective entrepreneur will function and not lag behind and thereby looses its relevance.
Of particular importance to entrepreneurial education lies the ability of institutions of higher education to shift and circulate information and technologies across faculties despite different academic disciplines, professional codes, and academic language that act as academic venture boundaries. These boundaries frustrate the need to integrate entrepreneurship education throughout a higher education institution, thus inhibiting the smooth functioning of entrepreneurial education. Thus, a need exists to overcome these barriers by amalgamating the various faculties socially across faculties whereby entrepreneurial educators could play “bridging roles” by acting as “boundary spanners” between faculties and forming close cohesive networks through the whole institution. This will enable educators in entrepreneurial higher education to link otherwise unconnected faculties to facilitate the development of unique knowledge and access to special knowledge and opportunities. This create an advantage over the traditional structural design where educators were only part of a specific faculty cohesive group.
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College Financial Aid – How Your Student Can Help
There are a number of things you can do to prepare your child for no debt college besides starting a college savings account. In my family I taught my kids the value of money and as they finished high school, the importance of investing. My goal was for them to take ownership of their money and to know how easily it can slip away. I wanted to raise savers and not borrowers. This pays off when they go to college because they will avoid the prison of credit cards so promoted on college campuses and they will become partners with me in getting grants for their education.
As a young parent I never saved for college. But I did something even better: I taught my kids the value of money and the horrors of debt. Now they have lifelong skills regarding money that will enable them to succeed from college all they way to a comfortable retirement. I began early to expect that they be involved in the process of managing money. My wife’s parents have faithfully given all their grandkids money at Christmas. So I made a point to set up “Accounts” for all my kids where I could keep a ledger for them of their savings balance and interest earned. I paid them the going CD interest rate, typically 5% and enjoyed explaining to them how their money grew over time by earning interest from the bank. Whenever they spent some money, I showed them how it left their account. And should they ever spend over their balance, I showed how they got charged interest for debt. This taught them the value of money in a tangible way. Proof of the result from this training can be found in my oldest daughter’s bank account. A junior at a university, she has $10,000 in her checking account from work and savings that earns 4% interest. She makes $30 a month in interest while her peers pay that on their credit card debt. Granted, I also coached her how to find a free checking account that pays 4%, but I have been training her to think this way since she was three years old. She is learning that wealth creation builds peace and makes life much more fun. Think she will have a peaceful, successful life as an adult? You bet. You should train your kids the same way. Start early.
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