The Entrepreneurship Center located at 285 South 68th Street in Lincoln is a unique place where all students of Southeast Community College can come to a variety of business classes.  It offers a unique setting where classrooms, computer lab and businesses share in symbiosis.

Timothy Mittan, director of the Entrepreneurship Center, has aimed at making the center a standard for entrepreneurial education.  Mittan noted that the center was being used as a model in a coalition of other community colleges throughout the country.  “We (SCC EC) are being used as a national model for this kind of program,” he said.

“Tim (Mittan) has done a marvelous job creating the Entrepreneurship Program,” cited Professor Richard Kohn, Legal Studies Instructor.  “He has created a reputation for SCC throughout the nation.”

Professor Scot Baillie, Marketing and Intro to Entrepreneurship Instructor concurred with his colleague.  “This is one of the best places to start a business,” he said.

In addition to the Entrepreneurship Center, the Continuing Education center is next door, providing a host of classes, including basic courses for English-Second-Language individuals, trade classes, traffic and licensing among a wide assortment of non-traditional studies.  The Continuing Education Center is located at 381 South 68^th Street Place, and curriculum can be found at http://www.southeast.edu/continuing.

The Entrepreneurship Center has numerous resources for potential businessmen and women who have even thought about the idea for beginning a business.

The fifth floor of the EC houses Community Development Resources and The Service Corps of Retired Executives.  Both are resources for idea bouncing and can give a potential entrepreneur a good place to start.

For those who don’t wish to start their own business, the classes offered at the EC can still offer elective classes that might do the student good.

“Every program could benefit from taking entrepreneurship classes,” Bailie remarked.  “The Intro to Entrepreneurship class will help them understand…what motivates them.”

Mittan assures students that at a point in his or her life, there will be a time when an opportunity will present itself to own a business.  “There is a vehicle here to help them make that decision,” he commented.

The services of the staff at the EC fulfill their role in critiquing and supporting business ideas and young businesses within their incubator.

For more information, the main website for the Entrepreneurship Center is located at http://www.southeast.edu/discover/locations/ent.