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November 7, 2018

Seeking Launch Partners for Entrepreneurial Mindset Training This December DURHAM, NC – November 7, 2018 – NC IDEA, a private foundation committed to supporting entrepreneurial ambition and economic advancement in North Carolina, announced today that the organization is supporting a statewide rollout of the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program (IHEP) and seeking launch partners who want to offer entrepreneurial mindset programming to their constituents. The Ice House Entrepreneurship Program (IHEP) is an experiential, problem-based program designed…

October 2, 2018

At NACCE’s Go West 2018 Summit in Burlingame, CA, ELI Vice President Rob Herndon sat on a lunchtime panel and presented to the over 200 in attendance on the importance of the methodologies employed in entrepreneurship education to change the overall systems of education. Making the case that student motivation and success in our educational systems is directly related to how many opportunities they have to be “entrepreneurial,” Herndon led off the panel alongside Sierra College students Savanna…

September 29, 2018

Watch Gary Schoeniger’s keynote address to the 2018 EntreEd Forum, “What’s Your Big Idea?” Gary discusses how the mindset of an entrepreneur goes far beyond business development but is a necessary component of any 21st-century education.

June 15, 2018

Bree Langemo has decided to step down as ELI president. Her life partner has accepted a great position as President & CEO of the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation. Bree and her family will be moving to Fargo, North Dakota, her hometown, where her extended family resides. With this change, she has decided to transition out of ELI to homeschool her daughter and focus on project-based work that provides more flexibility. From all of us…

May 10, 2018

ELI’s former President Bree Langemo conducted an interdisciplinary entrepreneurial mindset workshop at Ferris State University’s inaugural Student Success Summit. Faculty, staff, and administrators from a large variety of areas attended the workshop to learn how to incorporate an entrepreneurial mindset into student success initiatives.