Social entrepreneurship is typically taught in business schools but there is no reason why it cannot be taught in the liberal arts, engineering, public administration program, or other programs. Liberal arts schools such as Wake Forest in the U.S., public administration programs such as Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India and engineering programs such as Brown University’s have begun to do this. The business programs yield a grab bag of entrepreneurial approaches and tools and metrics. The liberal arts programs contribute an emphasis and concern on ethics, psychology, and social justice. The engineering programs yield approaches to technology, which are appropriate to indigenous conditions and populations. Public administration programs yield the knowledge and practical steps towards balancing the concerns and power of various constituencies. The social entrepreneurship field needs to blend and fuse all of these tools and concerns together to create a powerful new approach to teaching a new generation of students to understand the world and become effective agents of change. Those of us involved in the field of social entrepreneurship believe this effort could, in fact, become one of the important educational trends of this century.

Information on Social Entrepreneurship
For more information on social entrepreneurship, visit the University Network website www.universitynetwork.org, or download the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Handbook http://ashokau.org/resources/social-entrepreneurship-education-resource-handbook/ for faculty engaged in teaching and research in social entrepreneurship. The Social Entrepreneurship Interest Group’s goal is to widen the ‘tent’ of social entrepreneurship and to collaborate with faculty networks including Academy of Management, ICSB and the University Network and practitioner networks and groups such as Ashoka, Social Enterprise Alliance and the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship and others to bring everyone together to share resources and best practices in the field.

Accomplishments
The 2008 conference boasted six workshops, five papers and two cases in the social entrepreneurship track including the best practitioner paper "Appalachian by Design: Building an Organization with a Social Mission" by Diane Browning, Barbara Elliott and Debbi Brock and the outstanding workshop award "Social Entrepreneurship: Educating, Integrating & Experiencing" by Heidi Neck, Candida Brush, Patricia Greene, Stephen Schiffman, Denis Ceru from Babson College. The workshop sessions were well attended with twenty-six people participating in a meeting to make social entrepreneurship a special interest group.