Director of Entrepreneurial Leadership Pamela Goldberg earned national recognition for her teaching this month. The Acton Foundation honored Goldberg as one of 27 recipients of the Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Award.
"We believe that entrepreneurs are people who want to change the world by using their talents and gifts to create something in service to others," said Rick O'Donnell, president of Acton Foundation, in a statement. "It takes guts to take the kind of risk entrepreneurs are willing to take. But there are things a person can learn to increase the odds for success once they decide to take that leap. Great teachers like Pamela Goldberg work to make people smarter, wiser and better prepared."
A group of Tufts students nominated Goldberg for the award. A team of entrepreneurship teachers at the Acton School of Business in Austin, Texas evaluated the nominations and chose the final winners.
Each winner receives a monetary prize, a trophy and an invitation to a national seminar on teaching skills in entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurial Leadership Program was created in 2000 as part of the Tufts Gordon Institute. The program is designed to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions. Over 200 students participate in the program each semester, taking courses that count toward a minor in entrepreneurial leadership. The Entrepreneurial Leadership Program offers courses to all undergraduate students at Tufts.
Goldberg has been involved in the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program "since the inception," said Alex Reid, associate director of public relations at Tufts.
Goldberg previously worked as the director of business relations at Babson College. During her time at Babson, she helped create the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass. She has helped found other for-profit and non-profit projects, including the State Street Bank's investment banking branch.
The non-profit Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence was founded in 1997.
It uses a case-based Socratic method curriculum to prepare its students for careers in entrepreneurship.
