Engaged Alumni: Networking for Entrepreneurial Attitudes
Abstract
Higher education institutions of the 21st century face many previously unknown challenges. These include: marketization, massification and accountability. They have become the buzzwords of today’s academia. Teaching the entrepreneurial skills, required by the job market, cannot be reduced to traditional in-class lectures and seminars. The necessary interpersonal relations can be facilitated by cooperation with alumni as sociations, as exemplified the United States. Thus the network of en gaged alumni becomes a great asset of every college and university.References
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