Center for New Ventures

Center for New Ventures

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The Center for New Ventures was created to help the university and its expansive educational resources become more entrepreneurial. It provides technical assistance to university professors and academic staff seeking grants, corporate relations, government relations, business planning and partnerships for applied research projects. The center also facilitates the funding and underwriting of proposed degree programs, academic centers of excellence, technologies and applied education resources for the Provost's office.

New Ventures Areas of Expertise

By leveraging the wealth of education and expertise of New Ventures, our university can make significant progress in developing and expanding programs. Specific areas of assistance include:

  • Business and business planning
  • Marketing and market planning
  • Grant seeking and writing
  • Evaluation of university resources
  • Faculty development
  • Instructional design
  • Leadership and staffing
  • Student services and processes
  • Government agency liaison
  • Technology transfer
  • Applied research

In partnership with like-minded institutions, New Ventures places special emphasis on:

  • Integrity to the institutional mission
  • Intense focus on learners and learning
  • Maximum use of internal resources
  • Leveraging of strengths between and among external entities
  • Mutually beneficial goals

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