League Reaffirmation - Johnson County Community College

Entrepreneurship
JCCC’s business entrepreneurship program teaches
aspiring and existing entrepreneurs how to launch
new ventures and strengthen the managerial and
business skills they need to make a small business
succeed. The program offers a unique partnership
between credit and noncredit programming.
With the help of a grant from the Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation, in 2003 the college’s
for­credit business entrepreneurship program
and the Small Business Development Center
located on campus joined forces to develop
a joint program emphasizing “3 Steps for
Entrepreneurial Success at JCCC.”
As steps 1 and 2, students and community members
who master a skill through one of JCCC’s career
programs, such as interior design or automotive
technology, are encouraged to add entrepreneurship
courses to their schedule to help them develop the
business acumen needed to start – and grow – their
own business.
Once they graduate and go into business for
themselves, the students and community members
can take advantage of the services offered through
the Small Business Development Center, housed on
the college campus as part of the Center for Business
and Technology, to expand their business skills –
that’s step 3.
JCCC now offers 22 certificate programs combining
education in entrepreneurship with the curriculum of
existing career programs, ranging from automotive
technology entrepreneurship to Web design
entrepreneurship. Students in these programs learn
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