NACCE meaning in Community ?

Answer: What is National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship mean?

The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) is a non-profit membership organization founded in 2002 on the campus of Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is an organization of educators, presidents, and entrepreneurs focused on igniting entrepreneurship in their communities and on their campuses. Its mission is to provide leadership and sustainable, scalable resources to foster entrepreneurial thinking and action in one of the largest entrepreneurial ecosystems in North America. The association represents a dynamic community of technical and community colleges, including more than 2,500 faculty, staff, administrators, and presidents who serve nearly 4 million students.

NACCE's vision is to make community colleges North America's pre-eminent source for entrepreneurship education, support and inspiration. Through an annual conference, symposiums, a web site, an e-newsletter, webinars, a quarterly journal, centers of practice, member blogs, podcasts, and other services, NACCE helps its members share information about entrepreneurship education. NACCE also provides curriculum and other tools that can be used in the classroom and in communities to facilitate entrepreneurship projects and progress.

In 2019, NACCE published Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation, a book by expert contributors whose essays were edited by NACCE CEO and President Rebecca Corbin and Ron Thomas, a former NACCE board president and retired president of Dakota County Technical College. Also in 2019, NACCE's annual conference saw a record attendance of 514. In 2020, NACCE published its second book, Impact ED: How Community College Entrepreneurship Creates Equity and Prosperity, by Rebecca Corbin and entrepreneurship faculty members from Hillsborough Community College, Andrew Gold and Mary Beth Kerly. Also in 2020, NACCE moved its national headquarters to a campus of Wake Technical Community College in Cary, North Carolina, while still maintaining an administrative office in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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