Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Award Additional Information
Navigating the Application
- Visit the Fourwaves platform.
- Click on Call for Submissions button
- Complete Entrant Information section
- Select the following from the drop downs:
- Select an option: Program & Lifetime Achievement and Advocacy Awards
- Category: Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Awards
- Subcategory 1: [Select desired award from drop down menu]
Information for Award Finalists
- Video Pitch: If your program is selected as a finalist, you will be asked to submit a video pitching your program, pedagogical innovation, or co-curricular innovation for the award. Videos may be up to 10 minutes in length. Finalists are encouraged to review the award-specific criteria along with the judging criteria before creating their video.
- Q&A with the Finalist Judges: One or more representatives of the nominated program will be invited to participate in a question and answer session with the finalist judges. These sessions will take place prior to the start of USASBE 2025.
- Selection of the Winners: The selection of the award winners will be made at the USASBE 2025 Conference. Finalist judges will select winners based on: (a) the contents of their original nomination; (b) their video pitch for the award; and (c) the question and answer session.
- Announcement of Winners: Winners will be announced during the USASBE 2025 Conference.
Note: Failure to submit a finalist video pitch, or participate in the finalist Q&A session with the judges will constitute forfeiture of the award.
View materials for previous award recipients here.
Can Programs Reapply if They Don't Win? Absolutely! Only one winner is named in each award category in any year. As a consequence, it is quite possible that one or more truly outstanding nominees may not receive the award simply because an even more outstanding candidate was nominated in the same year. To deal with this possibility, the following guidelines have been established:
- The finalists for each award will be announced to the membership of USASBE and the public. The names of all other nominees will be kept confidential.
- All non-winning nominees, including non-winning finalists, may request feedback on how they could strengthen their applications for future nominations and are encouraged to resubmit. There is no prescribed period that any nominee must wait before resubmitting their nomination materials for an award.
- Universities or colleges that receive an award may not be nominated for that same award for a period of five years.
Information for Award Finalist
By submitting this nomination for consideration, the nominator(s) agree on behalf of themselves and the programs and individuals included in the nomination that:
- USASBE has the rights to publish the award nomination and related materials (PowerPoint slides, etc.) of award-winning entries to the USASBE website for use as a resource by USASBE members.
- One or more of the Finalists associated with the submission will attend the Conference to represent their nomination to the judges.
- Individuals who present before finalist judges agree to fulfill the service commitment included in nomination package during the following five-year period.
Due Dates for Awards
- Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Awards nominations due: September 15, 2024.
- Finalist submissions due: January 10, 2025
- Finalist Q&A with the Judges: Virtual, February 6 & 7, 2025
- One or more representatives of the program will participate in a Q&A session with finalist judges.
- Each program-session will last approximately 15 minutes.
- Winners Announced: During the USASBE Conference, February 2025, in Las Vegas, NV