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Description
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Building upon but going
considerably beyond the national initiative Preparing Future
Faculty (PFF), the Office of Graduate Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin developed and administers the
"Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program." Through 16
graduate-level, cross-disciplinary courses and internships (addressing
topics such as writing, pedagogy, communication, ethics, consulting,
technology and entrepreneurship), eight doctoral and master's portfolio
programs, and a variety of workshops, the Intellectual Entrepreneurship
Program aims to produce "citizen-scholars."
The immediate goal of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program is
to maximize the value of graduate education for students and society
at-large, enabling students to own their education by deciding how best
to contribute their expertise and in what particular venues. The
Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program seeks to harness, integrate and
productively utilize intellectual energy and talent wherever it is
located--in order to promote academic, cultural, political, social, and
economic change. In the past three years, the Program has helped over
2,500 UT students in nearly 90 academic fields discover their
disciplinary identity, celebrate the enormous value of their expertise
and become successful, engaged and resilient academic professionals.
The goal of the Intellectual
Entrepreneurship Program is to maximize the
value of graduate education for students and society
at-large, enabling students to decide how best to contribute
their expertise and in what particular venues. By
supplementing and enriching knowledge obtained in fields of
study, the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program
aims to produce not only scholars, but citizen
scholars.
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/development.html
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