We help individual students from all majors
U-Imagine focuses on teaching entrepreneurship and integration skills to students who want to pursue a new project. Our students learn to approach problems in novel ways, develop comfort with ambiguity, and apply their learned-skills in action. The Center provides valuable resources to all students, no matter the experience level or academic concentration. Feel free to let us help you develop your ideas into products, brands, services, or anything that creates value by meeting a social or market need.
What are Entrepreneurial Competencies?
Ursinus students are interested in and encouraged to refine the following abilities which are commonly referred to as entrepreneurial competencies.
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Creative (or inventive) thinking
- Negotiation
- Communication skills (especially persuasion)
- Problem-solving
- Time-management
- The ability to critically evaluate information and distill it to what is useful and relevant (information literacy)
- Flexibility and adaptability
entrepreneurial thinking is in high demand
Every student at Ursinus is encouraged to be an entrepreneurial (E) thinker. E-thinking fulfills the spirit of the liberal arts by giving students the chance to act on the desire to make significant contributions to the world. E-thinking is in high demand by employers in a 21st century workforce.
Need some advice with an entrepreneurial idea?
Schedule an appointment to meet with our Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Maureen Cumpstone
