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Published on: 8/24/2006
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M. Catherine Ashmore, Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, Columbus, OH; Marilyn Kipp, Marketplace for Kids, Mandan, ND; and Dianne Lauramoore, Academy for Entrepreneurship, Buchholz High School, Gainesville, FL; presented "Discovering the Entrepreneur in a Learner - Programs and Strategies," from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. EDT on August 24, 2006.
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Catherine Ashmore, Melba Kennedy, Karen Pohja.
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M. Catherine Ashmore
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M. Catherine Ashmore Executive Director Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, Columbus, OH
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M. Catherine Ashmore is a nationally recognized leader in entrepreneurship education and has worked for over 25 years to encourage its instruction among career and technical educators, and educational leaders in primary and secondary schools, colleges, and adult education.
Ashmore initiated The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education at The Ohio State University in 1982â€"later establishing it as a nonprofit corporation in 1997.She currently serves as its executive director.The consortium consists of more than 20 states and 60 organizations nationwide, providing leadership in K-12 and adult entrepreneurship education that supports the development of entrepreneurship in the United States.
Ashmore is the primary author of several entrepreneurship productsâ€""PACE" (Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship), "Beyond a Dream," and "Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship."She serves as a member of the board of the International Council for Small Business; is past president of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE); and is a 1990 recipient of the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, awarded by The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (PA).In 2006, she received the Max S. Wortman/USASBE Lifetime Achievement Award (for entrepreneurship).
Ashmore has a bachelor's degree in business from Miami University, Oxford, OH with an emphasis on marketing, a master's degree in education from The Ohio State University with an emphasis on marketing education and a doctorate in Education from the University of Michigan, with a major in occupational education and secondary emphasis in business, marketing, and small group management.