Prior to arriving at UP, Kay Molkentin was the director of the Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship at Hiram College in Ohio, where she managed the administrative and co-curricular activities of the center and academic program. Additionally, Kay taught several courses including: Creativity, Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset; Entrepreneurial Process; Entrepreneurship and the Studio Arts; Fireside Chat Seminar; Social Entrepreneurship; Enterprise Development; Start Up Communities: A Comparison of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; and a first-year seminar course. She has expertise in idea development, innovation, marketing, social enterprise, entrepreneurial ecosystems, networking and cross-disciplinary integration of entrepreneurial practice. She has presented on a variety of topics and published articles on Building and Maintaining a Regional Inter-University Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship. Kay also has 20 years development/fundraising experience.
Q&A with Kay
What are you teaching?
Teaching ENT480:Creating a World Class Venture (Fall) & ENT481: Entrepreneur Apprenticeship (Spring)
What NEW things are you planning for UP Pamplin?
1) To grow the E-Scholars Program to engage more students from non-business majors; 2) and to provide faculty across the University with resources/activities to infuse entrepreneurial thinking in their courses; and 3) make UP the premier school for entrepreneurship in the Pacific Northwest.
Why should students take your class?
Entrepreneurship is more than just starting a business, it is about developing a certain way of thinking (the entrepreneurial mindset) — it is about the way in which you approach challenges and mistakes. As an E-Scholar, students will begin to develop this mindset, be challenged to dig deeper and try again and again, improve their skills and develop new ones that will change their life, the lives of others, their community, and even the world…one idea at a time.