How Paul Quinn College Uses Entrepreneurship to Reduce Costs, Improve Workforce Readiness, and Gr...

Описание: In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Jeff Meade, Founding Director of the Every Quinnite is an Entrepreneur program at Paul Quinn College, about how the institution uses entrepreneurship as an operating model that changes cost structure, student engagement, retention, and workforce readiness.



Rather than treating entrepreneurship as a business major or elective, Paul Quinn embeds it into campus work, corporate partnerships, freshman onboarding, and the curriculum itself—creating a model that addresses multiple institutional challenges at the same time.



What you’ll gain from listening to this podcast:



✓ Operating Model Insight: How entrepreneurship can function as an institutional design, not an academic program.



✓ Cost Structure Strategy: How campus work can reduce staffing pressure while improving student engagement.



✓ Workforce Pipeline: How corporate partners become employment pathways, not internship providers.



✓ Tuition Design: Why lowering sticker price required changing how the college operates.



✓ Engagement and Retention: How meaningful student work creates more connection points across campus.



✓ Faculty Development: Why supervising student workers becomes leadership training for faculty.



✓ Breaking Silos: How student ventures naturally integrate across academic departments.



✓ Partnership Approach: How external and internal partnerships drive both funding and outcomes.



✓ Student Mindset Shift: Why every freshman is taught to become an entrepreneur of their own life.



✓ Replicable Ideas: What presidents and boards can adapt from this model without being a “work college.”



This episode offers a practical look at how entrepreneurship, campus work, and partnerships can reshape how a college functions while improving outcomes that leaders are under pressure to solve.