Assistant Professor of Business Administration Karen Mattison’s Winter Term class, “Planning to Make a Difference,” planned and hosted an interactive learning experience focused on social entrepreneurship Jan. 19. The event in Watkins Student Center attracted more than 100 students and…
In a Winter Term course on poverty this January, Erskine students explored a topic many people hope to avoid. The course was capped by a trip to the Triune Mercy Center—a non-denominational mission church that ministers alongside the homeless in…
In the spring of 2014 the Erskine College faculty approved a new minor in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI), and in the fall of 2014 the Erskine Theological Seminary faculty approved a Graduate Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship. A core team…
Erskine's Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI) Program hosted retreat sessions for students as well as members of the faculty and staff on the Erskine campus Saturday. Students met in Memorial Hall while faculty and staff members gathered in the Patrick Room of Bowie…
A year ago, Erskine College junior Jeron Crawford didn’t know much about social entrepreneurship. Then last March, Jeron joined a contingent of eight Erskine students, faculty and staff who attended a Service & Social Entrepreneurship conference hosted by the Algernon…
David Bornstein, self-described “solutions journalist,” addressed an Erskine audience April 19 in one of a series of THRIVE convocations centered around Erskine President Dr. David Norman’s “Presidential Initiative for Human Restoration.” Bornstein writes the “Fixes” column for the New York…
