Supporting Students

The Technology Entrepreneur Center is always looking for alumni, corporate partners, and friends of the Center and the University who would like to help students. It is often said that successful entrepreneurship requires the input of those who have “gone before;’ in other words, mentoring and networking opportunities.

If you’d like access to or would like to support our students, consider the following opportunities:

• Join our Professional Resource Network, to provide mentoring to student teams in the Cozad Business Plan Competition, the Student Entrepreneur Learning Lab, or in TEC’s other courses and programs.
  

• Serve as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and visit campus to interact with students in a variety of settings.
  

• Guest lecture in our Lectures in Entrepreneurship course, which meets from 5:00-6:15 PM on Tuesday evenings.
  

• Attend an Illini-TEC Forum in which students present their innovation or new business ideas to an audience of alumni, friends and entrepreneurs in Chicago.
  

• Custom opportunities available! For more information, contact Rhiannon Clifton (217-244-4035 or rclifton@illinois.edu)