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At the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED), we develop career agency by teaching entrepreneurial thinking - the mindset and skills to launch ventures, solve meaningful problems, and create economic opportunity throughout life.
At the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED), we develop career agency by teaching entrepreneurial thinking - the mindset and skills to launch ventures, solve meaningful problems, and create economic opportunity throughout life.
Through entrepreneurship education, experiential learning, mentorship, and commercialization support, we prepare students not only to compete for opportunities, but to create them.
Through entrepreneurship education, experiential learning, mentorship, and commercialization support, we prepare students not only to compete for opportunities, but to create them.
What We Offer
Innovation In Action.
Learn.
Entrepreneurship education that develops entrepreneurial thinking.
Practice.
Real-world experiences where students solve meaningful problems.
Launch.
Resources that help ideas become ventures, careers, and innovations.
Connect.
Mentors, employers, investors, and entrepreneurs who open doors.
CORE VALUES:
CORE VALUES:
Learning.
Wellbeing.
Impact.
Growth.
Community.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
We value and nurture the whole person, not just the entrepreneur.
We search for the wisdom and lessons from any situation to shape our perspective and inform our growth.
Everything's an experiment and is figure-outable.
Authenticity is a competitive edge.
We cultivate a growth mindset and growth culture.
We embrace the process over the outcome.
We build with the triple bottom line in mind: people, planet, and profit.
We put a premium on progress, not perfection.
We believe failure is success in progress. (Albert Einstein)
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES:
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES:
Reimagining Entrepreneurship Education.
Modernize NCCU's entrepreneurship curriculum to prepare students for an economy shaped by emerging technologies and rapid change. Students will graduate with the thinking, technical fluency, and power skills employers and founders alike demand.
Expanding Global Perspectives.
Launch CEED Global to expose students to entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, broadening their understanding of international trade, global markets, and leadership abroad.
Growing Our Impact.
Expand CEED's reach across NCCU and North Carolina through new partnerships, interdisciplinary programming, and experiential learning opportunities that increase career agency for more students.
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