GUEST MENTOR Brad Bernthal, director of Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado: Entrepreneurship is an outsider way of thinking. A major would domesticate entrepreneurship. The better path for integrating entrepreneurship within universities involves a re-conception of how university institutions work.
The greatest risk of the entrepreneurial major is isolation. The last thing you want is for entrepreneurship to become a ghetto separated from other departments and disciplines. Instead, you want entrepreneurship diffused across schools and campus departments. What would be most powerful is a confederated model of decentralized but coordinated entrepreneurship offerings that are encouraged within each campus.
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