Twenty Colleges and Universities to Award Coleman Fellowships for 2011-2012 Academic Year

The Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows program will continue into a third year in an effort to extend self-employment education across 20 university and college campuses.  Including funding for new and returning Fellows, the Coleman Foundation has committed $342,000 to this year's program. 

Faculty Fellows are typically educators from outside the school of business at their institution.  They engage in projects in support of entrepreneurship education on their campus which inspire students in non-business disciplines to gain self-employment skills and experience.  For the 2011-2012 academic year, 57 new Fellows from across the Arts and Sciences, ranging from Dance to Design and English to Engineering, will create new courses within their disciplines or modify existing ones to incorporate elements of self-employment education.

The 2010-2011 Class was comprised of 56 faculty members from 20 colleges and universities.  This year, 16 of these schools received new Fellows grants and are joined by four additional campuses which will receive Fellowship funding for the first time.  In addition, limited funding will be provided to support the continuing efforts of 64 faculty members who received Fellowships in prior years.  The 2009-2010 Class was comprised of 38 faculty members from 14 colleges and universities. 

Colleges and universities continuing their participation in the Coleman Fellows Program include:

• California State University, Fresno (CA)
• Canisius College (NY)
• DePaul University (IL)
• Finlandia University (MI)
• Illinois State University (IL)
• Juniata College (PA)
• Lawrence Technological University (MI)
• Lawrence University (WI)
• Millikin University (IL)
• Qunicy University (IL)
• Saint Louis University (MO)
• Texas Christian University (TX)
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro (NC)
• Western Kentucky University (KY)
• Wichita State University (KS)
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)

Colleges and universities joining the program in 2011-2012 include:

• Mesa State College (CO)
• North Central College (IL)
• Northern Illinois University (IL)
• Simmons College (MA)

The Coleman Foundation has awarded Coleman Fellowship grants totalling $800,000 during the first three years of this program.