Miami Courant

FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – Cultivating future business leaders is a priority at Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship. For undergraduate students at the college’s Huizenga Business Innovation Academy (HBIA), launching and operating a business is a fundamental part of their educational experience. 

The academy focuses on the practice of experiential learning to assist in the development of the competencies portrayed in the academy’s Entrepreneurship Competence Framework.

The Academy will present BIZ BASH on Monday, March 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Alvin Sherman Library walkway on Nova Southeastern University’s Davie Campus.

Biz Bash – the largest showcase of student-run businesses at NSU – gives students the chance to impact the NSU community by operating their businesses in unison. About 15 student businesses will be on hand offering such products as Asian cuisine, milkshakes, smoothies, coffee, care boxes, sneakers, graphic designing, and social media marketing services.

About four years ago, the college launched the academy – a one-of-a-kind program to develop students’ entrepreneurial skills and allow students to earn a bachelors and MBA degree in four years. The academy incorporates an entrepreneurial curriculum coupled with co-curricular activities, which result in the creation of and monetary investment into their business following graduation.

Created for traditional first-time university students, the Huizenga Academy developed an accelerated curriculum designed to educate future business and entrepreneurial leaders. Students enhance their résumés by participating in special summer “boot camp” courses during the first and second years the program. During these sessions, they create and learn how to run a student business on campus. In addition, they gain additional hands-on, practical experience with faculty-mentored internships.

The Academy is entering its fourth year with more 250 students enrolled, and students from the inaugural class that began in Fall 2019 are now preparing to pitch for their final business seed funding this spring.

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