Howard Community College

ECO-AUDIT/ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS STATEMENT This issue of Pathways was printed on paper derived from well-managed forests and 10% recycled post-consumer waste. The use of this environmentally-friendly paper saves the following: Trees – 5.5 Energy – 2.50 million BTUs Greenhouse Gas Reduction – 612 lbs. of CO 2 Waste Water Reduction – 3,012 gallons Solid Waste Reduction – 265 lbs. Environmental impact estimates were produced using the Environmental Defense Paper Calculator. Pathways The Magazine of Howard Community College VOLUME IV, NUMBER 7, SPRING 2014 MAnAGinG EDiTOr Katie Turner WriTEr Harriet Meyers DESiGn PrODuCTiOn Margie Dunklee Brittany Bruno Sarah English Vicky Trail Mike Scrivener Christi Tyler PHOTO EDiTOr Mike Scrivener PrESiDEnT Kathleen Hetherington, Ed.D. DirECTOr OF STrATEGiC MArKETinG & COMMuniCATiOnS Jane Sharp BOArD OF TruSTEES Kevin J. Doyle, Chair Edmund S. Coale, III, Vice Chair Roberta E. Dillow Mary S. Esmond Mamie J. Perkins Katherine K. Rensin Dennis R. Schrader Kathleen B. Hetherington, Ed.D., Secretary-Treasurer © 2014, Howard Community College 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21044, 443-518-1000. Pathways is published twice a year in the spring and fall by the Office of Public Relations & Marketing. For editorial inquiries or comments, please email pathways@howardcc.edu. Read Pathways online at howardcc.edu/pathways A Message from the President One of the student events that I look forward to every semester is the Entrepreneurial Celebration hosted by the college's Center for Entrepreneurial and Business Excellence (CEBE). The evening features a "rocket marketing" competition with students from an introductory entrepreneurship and creativity course pitching their business ideas. Each semester, I am struck by their enthusiasm and energy, their excitement about changing the world, and their commitment to discovering innovative solutions to meet our community's needs. Entrepreneurs make a critical contribution to the local economy. These risk takers look at the world in different ways, and they doggedly pursue new and improved approaches to benefit others – in the process generating business revenue and jobs. That's why, 10 years ago, when HCC's Commission on the Future asked us to develop an educational program for entrepreneurship, we responded with a holistic, individualized program that is attracting more participants every year. What do I mean by holistic? While we are helping students understand the steps they must take to launch and sustain successful businesses, we are also providing instruction that develops the life skills that will serve them regardless of their career path. Competency in leadership, analytical thinking, creativity, and oral and written communications – all of these skills are enhanced during participation in the entrepreneurial program. On the following pages, you'll read about current and former HCC students who have launched businesses and who continue to build on their dreams. Our students range from ages 18 to 65, include high school graduates and those with professional degrees, have decades of business experience and no business experience. What they do have in common is the passion for an idea and the dream of turning that idea into a business. We are proud to be on the leading edge of entrepreneurial education here at HCC, offering programs that help students change their lives so that they can change the world. Kathleen Hetherington, Ed.D., President Kathleen Hetherington, Ed.D., President q President Hetherington (right) and HCC faculty Roger Weber, Sharon Schmickley, and Betty Noble with Startup Maryland co-chairs Julie Lenzer Kirk and Michael Binko during the fall "Pitch Across Maryland" bus stop at the college.

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