Singing Their Praises: Entrepreneurship Center for Music and Director Jeffrey Nytch win innovation awards at national, global level
Congratulations to the听听(ECM) and ECM Director Jeffrey Nytch!
Dr. Nytch will be awarded the Sharon Alpi Award for Innovative Pedagogy by the听,听and the ECM recently won the Excellence in Specialty Entrepreneurship Award from the .
The award honors centers that focus on entrepreneurship education for a specific audience. The ECM boasts impressive credentials as:
- The first听entrepreneurship center in the world dedicated to the arts
- The first institution to grant tenure in arts entrepreneurship (Nytch)
- The creator of the first听鈥渁rts & creative industries鈥 track for an collegiate entrepreneurship competition (New Venture Challenge)
The Center's Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship鈥攊n partnership with the Leeds School of Business鈥攊s听among the most rigorous credentials of its kind, and over 20 other ventures have been launched from the ECM since its inception.
ECM director Jeffrey Nytch听was thrilled when he heard the center鈥檚 name announced during the GCEC鈥檚 virtual conference:
"I feel that it鈥檚 a validation of our leadership status in this field. Arts entrepreneurship is a fairly new thing, and even though we were the first one to be created all the way back in 1999, we haven鈥檛 always been a visible presence in the field. When I came here in 2009, that was one of the things I was committed to changing, establishing us as a leader, and I feel I鈥檝e done that in the last few years. This was听validation of that.
I鈥檓 particularly proud because the GCEC is not an arts entrepreneurship organization. It鈥檚 an entrepreneurship organization, period. That means that the vast majority of centers and membership are folks from business schools. It鈥檚 unusual for mainstream entrepreneurship to recognize this work in the arts, so that鈥檚 particularly satisfying."