Educators & Career Counselors Resources
Preparing Future Business and Entrepreneurial Leaders
The Orange County California Community College Business and Entrepreneurship Sector supports business and entrepreneurship educators and Career Counselors via our Regional Director, Dr. A. Cathleen Greiner, PhD, and our partner Kolena Corporation. They both will work with businesses and educators to ensure college curriculum and training programs are meeting the needs of business and industry. The goal is to ensure students not only receive the technical skills they need to succeed in whatever Career Education path they choose, but also the business and entrepreneurship skills to prepare them to become future entrepreneurial leaders in the workplace or in their own businesses.
Explore resources and best practices for business and entrepreneurship education.
Curricumlum Development
Nearly every community college in California provides coursework or program offerings to educate entrepreneurs and/or business owners. Since Business and Entrepreneurship is not limited to one industry sector, the coursework and programs being developed can cross almost every discipline.
The Orange County CCC Business and Entrepreneurship Sector collaborates with industry and education to improve and expand business and entrepreneurial curriculum. The result is a job-ready workforce and entrepreneurial leaders to ensure California’s economic growth and global competitiveness. Here are resources and tools for our curriculum development partners.
- Busentoc.com – Along with our Partner Kolena Corporation, our website provides via this website together we offer over 130 Soft skill courses.
- Entrepreneurship Curriculum Library – A comprehensive library of over 15 different entrepreneurship curriculum from best-in-class organizations, such as the Kauffman Foundation.Â
- EShip Educator Curriculum Resource Sharing Website – This website has been developed by the Business & Entrepreneurship Sector to be the entrepreneur curriculum resource where best practices and teaching tools are uploaded and shared by and for educators in California and across the country.
- Program and Course Approval Handbook – The complete course approval handbook from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.Â
- Previous Projects
- Final Report Narrative for Self-employment Pathways in the Gig Economy– The Business & Entrepreneurship Sector is seeking applications for ten $7,500 Faculty Entrepreneurship Champion Mini Grants for projects in the following areas (Click here to download a copy of the Request for Applications):
- Embedding/Infusing business/entrepreneurship curriculum into existing Career Technical Education (CTE) classes and programs.
- Creation of credit, non-credit and not-for-credit business/entrepreneurship courses and programs (e.g., stackable certificates, badges, low-unit certificates, certificates of achievement, or AA/AS/AA-T/AS-T degrees).
- Creation of entrepreneurship pathways from middle school, high school, community college, four-year universities and development of articulation agreements associated with these pathways.
- Business and entrepreneurship related experiential learning opportunities such as setting up student run businesses, entrepreneurship centers, student business clubs, business incubators, accelerators, makerspaces, co-working spaces, internship programs, or business pitch competitions.
- Final Report Self-employment Pathways in the Gig Economy by 2020, it is projected that 43% of the workforce will be made up of freelancers or independent contractors in the gig economy. The purpose of this pilot project will be to prepare community college students to become freelancers and independent contractors in the growing Gig Economy. Working with industry partners, the California Community College Business & Entrepreneurship Sector will roll out a Self-employment Pathways in the Gig Economy at colleges across the state. For more info, contact Charles Eason at charles.eason@solano.edu 707-863-7846.
- Final Report Narrative for Self-employment Pathways in the Gig Economy– The Business & Entrepreneurship Sector is seeking applications for ten $7,500 Faculty Entrepreneurship Champion Mini Grants for projects in the following areas (Click here to download a copy of the Request for Applications):
- Third-Party Curriculum
- Kauffman FastTrac “Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture”
- Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative “Ice House Entrepreneurship Program”
- The Planning Shop
- NxLeveL Entrepreneurial Training Program
- HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (LIFE)
- Virtual Enterprises International
- Junior Achievement
- Generation E Institute Entrepreneurship Education for Tomorrow’s Leaders
- ThinkTomi
- My Own Business Institute (Santa Clara University)
- Associations
- Regional Projects
- Proven Ready – The PROVENREADY: ClassroomÂ
 College  Career PROGRAM helps build tomorrow’s workforce today by giving high school students the opportunity to learn more about college and career opportunities in Business, Entrepreneurship, Global Trade, Advanced Transportation, and Logistics – and the opportunity to earn industry-certified credentials in those sectors. - Entrepreneur Network Los Angeles
- Small Business Industry Sector Projects in Common Webinar and PowerPoint Presentation
- Proven Ready – The PROVENREADY: ClassroomÂ
- Other Resources
- CTE Launch Board – a statewide data system supported by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and hosted by Cal-PASS Plus, provides data to California community colleges and their feeder K-12 school districts on the effectiveness of CTE programs.
- CalPASS Plus – California’s actionable system of data linking student performance from pre-K through 12, to college and the workplace.
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – among the largest private foundations in the United States, their grant-making and operations are focused on two areas: 1) education and 2) entrepreneurship.
- CTE Online – a California resource devoted to connecting educators and leaders within the unique field of Career and Technical Education to quality professional development tools that emphasize the role rigorous academic skills play in pursuit of industry and career-related coursework.
The California Community Colleges Workforce and Economic Development Program Business and Entrepreneurship Sector supports faculty across colleges with internships and employers.
Join our Student Internship and Faculty Externship Community of Practice page.Â
- Speaker Series
- Training Opportunities (sector-offered and otherwise)
- There are no training opportunities available at this time.
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