Syracuse, NY--Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management will welcome 23 veterans to campus next week for the fourth Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. The veterans will attend a nine-day residency on campus beginning July 24. During camp, university faculty will teach them the wide range of skills needed to run a small business. The boot camp grew out of...
Syracuse, NY--Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management will welcome 23 veterans to campus next week for the fourth Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.
The veterans will attend a nine-day residency on campus beginning July 24. During camp, university faculty will teach them the wide range of skills needed to run a small business.
The boot camp grew out of a discussion in 2006 about the discrimination against disabled veterans between U.S. Air Force veteran Mike Haynie, an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management, and his department chairman.
“Wounded warriors are coming back from these conflicts with fewer opportunities in the workplace,” said Melvin T. Stith, dean of the Whitman School and a former Vietnam War-era Army Captain. “This program is a step towards providing them with the skills and knowledge to create their own opportunities.”
Whitman held the first boot camp in 2007. Since then more than 300 veterans have attended a camp at Whitman or at five partnering business schools. Boot camp veterans have launched 100 businesses.
The program is free and open to post 9-11 U.S. Veterans.
In the first phase they study on their own. In the second, they attend a nine-day residency on campus. Faculty experts follow up with a year of mentoring to the fledgling business owners.
Five other business schools are partners with Whitman in the program. They are: UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, Florida State University’s College of Business, the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, and the College of Business at the University of Connecticut.
About 150 veterans will take part in the program at the six-school consortium over the next four months.
To apply for future admission to the boot camp go to whitman.syr.edu/ebv, or contact the Whitman school at 443-8736, or email EVBinfo@syr.edu.