Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium

Educational Leaders Endorse IE

Ohio State University President

E. Gordon Gee

Syracuse University Chancellor

Nancy Cantor

University of California President Mark G. Yudof

University of North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp



Stanford President John Hennessy



Excelencia in Education President Sarita Brown

Arizona State University President Michael Crow

Andrew Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis



Former Howard Vice President and Graduate Dean Orlando Taylor

President of the Field Museum and Former President, University of Oregon, Richard Lariviere

President, University of Texas at San Antonio, Ricardo Romo



A Vice Presidential Initiative in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE), Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) is an inter-collegial Consortium of the Colleges of Communication, Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, Law, Education, Pharmacy, and the Schools of Engineering, Information, Business, Nursing, Architecture, Public Affairs and Social Work. The mission of IE is to educate "citizen-scholars"--individuals who creatively utilize their intellectual capital as a lever for social good. IE is not a program, nor a compartmentalized academic unit or institute; it is an intellectual platform and educational philosophy for instigating learning across disciplinary boundaries and generating collaborations between the academy and society. IE initiatives pertain to the undergraduate experience, graduate study, faculty research and the connections between the university and community. IE has had the added effect of increasing diversity in higher education.