Students of all majors welcome
Entrepreneurship organization can offer helpful insights for any field
Krista Humphries
Issue date: 9/8/05 Section: News
Last year, CEO had around 100 members, paying $50 for a year or $30 for a semester, Martin said. This covers gas expenses for trips, dinners and other programs the club offers, she said.
Bobby Silber, a senior entrepreneurial management major and CEO vice president of operations, said seven CEO members participated in the Intern-Scholars Program this summer. They gave support to small, start-up businesses, Silber said, and each student worked at least 200 hours helping the business do anything they needed.
Silber said he witnessed "all the little processes and things they have to go through."
Martin said: "It's one thing to sit in the classroom, and it's another thing to actually see the struggles of starting the company."
Minor said CEO is part of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program that started in 2000. Before the program was established, students could major in management, but starting in 2000, students could major in entrepreneurial management and courses were added, he said.
Entrepreneurial management has 189 declared majors, making it the second largest field in the business school, Minor said. Only finance is more popular, he added.
Of pre-business majors, Minor said, there is also a high concentration of entrepreneurial management majors. This may be the result of the Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Program that recognizes successful high school students who have started and managed their own businesses, Minor said. TCU sends information on the program and nomination forms to every high school in Texas, public and private.
"The word's out with folks that we have a strong program," Minor said.
Bobby Silber, a senior entrepreneurial management major and CEO vice president of operations, said seven CEO members participated in the Intern-Scholars Program this summer. They gave support to small, start-up businesses, Silber said, and each student worked at least 200 hours helping the business do anything they needed.
Silber said he witnessed "all the little processes and things they have to go through."
Martin said: "It's one thing to sit in the classroom, and it's another thing to actually see the struggles of starting the company."
Minor said CEO is part of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program that started in 2000. Before the program was established, students could major in management, but starting in 2000, students could major in entrepreneurial management and courses were added, he said.
Entrepreneurial management has 189 declared majors, making it the second largest field in the business school, Minor said. Only finance is more popular, he added.
Of pre-business majors, Minor said, there is also a high concentration of entrepreneurial management majors. This may be the result of the Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Program that recognizes successful high school students who have started and managed their own businesses, Minor said. TCU sends information on the program and nomination forms to every high school in Texas, public and private.
"The word's out with folks that we have a strong program," Minor said.
