Entrepreneurship in American Higher Education （企业家精神在美国高等教育）.pdf

Entrepreneurship in American Higher Education A Report from the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education 2 Preface By Carl J. Schramm, Kauffman Foundation President and CEO In January 2006, the Kauffman Foundation convened a multidisciplinary panel of distinguished educators to think with us and advise us about the place of entrepreneurship in America’s colleges and universities. Though entrepreneurial activity has played a dominant role in the U.S. economy for decades, the study of entrepreneurship is relatively new to higher education. We asked the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education to take an extensive look at higher learning in the United States and offer recommendations for a comprehensive approach to teaching entrepreneurship to college students. This report, “Entrepreneurship in American Higher Education,” presents the results of the Panel’s deliberations. The report explains why entrepreneurship matters to American higher education and offers broad recommendations about the potential of entrepreneurship as a key element in undergraduate education, the major, graduate study, the evaluation of faculty, topics referred to as the “co-curriculum,” and the management of universities. In reaching its conclusions, the Panel examined an array of educational models and practices and also discussed the possibility of a disciplinary canon for entrepreneurship. It concluded—wisely, in our view—that the diversity of institutional types and educational missions of American colleges and universities make a single approach to entrepreneurship both unrealistic and inauthentic. Thus, the report aims to be suggestive rather than prescriptive and supplies illustrations from a variety of colleges and universities as concrete exemplars of its general points. The members of the Panel represent both pri