Go Deep Entrepreneurship Teaching and Learning Scholars and Fellows Program More at: http://theinnographer.com/for-‐education/go-‐deep Opening snapshot: June 2015 Your full name: Susan Clark Muntean Your degrees and/or designations: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; M.B.A., University of Oregon; B.Sc., Pepperdine University. USASBE Social Entrepreneurship Certificate. Your job title and affiliation: Assistant Professor of Management, University of North Carolina, Asheville Link(s) at which you want people to find you: • •
https://mgmtacct.unca.edu/faces/faculty/susan-‐clark-‐muntean https://www.linkedin.com/hp/?dnr=YgjQUB65Gs7yHqSdY1chVzKxiMJ3HchWBKQ6
Anything else at all you want people to know about you? I am more concerned with/ passionate about social and sustainable entrepreneurship than traditional/ for-‐profit entrepreneurship. I believe all entrepreneurship requires a transformation to be more sustainable, just and legitimate. People have heretofore too many times been shut out of the process and impacts on them ignored or else unintended consequences of interventions-‐-‐both social and market based-‐-‐unaccounted for, poorly understood and thus too much harm and insufficient benefits distributed throughout society and the globe as a consequence of entrepreneurial action. For example, hotbeds of high-‐growth, high-‐ tech entrepreneurship such as Silicon Valley have and are failing in terms of inclusiveness and thus failing in terms of achieving collective economic and social impact potential. This needs to change and my project will be mindful of these larger issues. Title of your project? “Designing classroom processes for enhanced student engagement in collective entrepreneurial problem solving, solution development and impact.” 100-‐150 word summary of your change project? My project is for the undergraduate classroom at a public liberal arts university. I want to design a process that begins with the authentic concerns, desires, passions and/or pain points that students experience in their lives as consumers, citizens, etc. The process then leads them through intensive problem identification and analysis, which brings deeper understanding of and wisdom concerning the problem. This would occur in a collective/group problem-‐solving setting. The next step is to design a process for creating innovative solutions in such a group setting. While I