Kay Molkentin, Entrepreneurship Professor of Practice & Director of Entrepreneurship, Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation

What do you teach?

I teach E-Scholar courses -ENT480: Creating a World Class Venture and ENT481: Venture Apprenticeship and help with ENT482: Global Entrepreneurship along with:

  • ENT200: Intro to Entrepreneurship
  • BUS364: Innovation (1 section)
  • BUS487: Social Entrepreneurship

What are you working on?

Anything and everything entrepreneurship related.

Currently I have been busy pulling all the logistics together for the E-Scholars annual Fall Business Trip to NYC, which takes place over fall break.

I am always working on recruiting students to apply for the next cohort of E-Scholars.  This year I am expanding our traditional approach by also meeting with faculty from across the university to share with them how the E-Scholars experience can be transformative for their students and how they can recommend students to apply.  

Organizing the Spring Pilot Venture Challenge – updating the application process and Moodle resources; recruiting judges; recruiting students and helping them with developing their ideas.

Working with my Leadership and Innovation counterparts in the Franz Center to develop synergistic activities and events for the campus community.

I also am the advisor for the Entrepreneurship & Innovation student club.

Fun things you like to do?

Being relatively new to Oregon, my husband and I enjoy exploring all the cool nature spots here in the PNW. We also like biking, walking and hope to do some camping soon. We really have been enjoying attending all the home Men’s & Women’s soccer games. Go Pilots!!!

Visiting with our daughter and son-in-law in Portland and our son in Boulder, CO.

With the worst of the pandemic behind us (hopefully) we are looking forward to traveling throughout Europe again and visiting family.

I enjoy traveling with the E-Scholars domestically and internationally.