Are you interested in a guest lecture on social entrepreneurship in a fall course?

[Jay Stewart]

Greetings, (sorry for the lack of a more personalized greeting)

 

You are teaching a course at UHart this fall that might benefit from two speakers on Social Entrepreneurship that could be brought to campus with a Hartford Consortium Grant that we received last year. The speakers are:

1) Carey Wheaton, who directs the Billings Forge project in the “Frog Hollow” part of Harford:  http://billingsforgeworks.org/

2) Michelle Cote, who is Executive Director of reSET: Social Enterprise Trust
http://www.socialenterprisetrust.org/index.html .

 

The program will be an introduction by Cote about social entrepreneurship with Wheaton using Billings Forge Project as an example followed by a Q&A. We anticipate that it will take about 60-90 minutes and would like to have it at a time and place that would facilitate attendance by a regular class of students taking a course on a related topic AND would also be open to other students and the general public. I will handle the scheduling of the meeting room at UHart, if it is held there.

 

At the moment we have a commitment to give the talk on both Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 9 and 11. One of the days the talk will be at MCC and the other day will be at UHart, St. Joseph University (formerly College), or CCSU—wherever there is the most interest. So I am trying to find out how much interest there is at UHart.

 

The possible UHart classes that I have identified (and that one of you teaches) are:

Legal Basis of Business

Seminar in Entrepreneurship

Managing Organizational Behavior

Leadership in the 21^st Century

Leadership and Management

Business, Law, and Society

World of Business

AUCS: Dynamics and Environment of World Business

è Also please forward this email to the teachers of other relevant courses that are not included above.

 

So, please answer the following questions.

1) How relevant would the program be to your course (and indicate which course).

If not relevant, then you can skip the following questions.

2) If your course is on a T or R schedule AND the program was held during your regular class time, would you have your Oct. 9 or Oct. 11 class attend the lecture as part of your regular class meetings?

   If yes, what are your class times?

3) Otherwise, would you encourage attendance by your students? In particular, would you relate attendance to an assignment?

 

 

Thanks,

Jay Stewart

 

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