Entrepreneurial Advisory Council

The Advisory Council repreents the community partners that the Institute collaborates with in carrying out its activities and programs. Made up of business and community leaders and representatives from various local, state, federal agencies, this group participates in classroom instructions, develops and implements off site educational and recreational learning experiences for staff and students, and is a ready source of technical assistance and other related functions.

In the development of business professionals, the Institute realizes that it will need a constant supply of information to achieve success. Through the Advisory Council we are able to stay aware of trends and issues and keep up with rapid economic and technological changes to become and stay competitive.

We have already discovered that it's next to impossible to keep up with all this information on our own. There is simply too much of it. Fortunately, the knowledge that we lack is always someone else's specialty, so we can turn to the Advisory Council for help.

We have found that there are usually at least a few people on the Advisory Council who can help deal with certain issues or special problems that our students/graduates may encounter in the business or profession they are in or are interested in entering. In lieu of specific knowledge, students/graduates must know in advance whom to contact and where to go to get the information they need- the Advisory Council fills this role.