Equip Your Faculty to Teach Innovation Across Every Discipline

A plug-and-play entrepreneurship center, curriculum + community support—designed for HBCUs and tailored to your students.

Build Competitive Students—and a Competitive Institution

In today’s economy, the most forward-thinking universities aren’t just teaching entrepreneurship—they’re embedding it across departments, aligning with high-growth industries, and building pathways that connect students to capital, technology, and wealth-building careers.

That’s what the HBCUvc University Platform delivers: not just curriculum, but a bridge between your campus and the innovation economy.

When your students understand how venture capital works, how to raise capital, and how to create scalable solutions—they’re not just more competitive in the job market. They’re positioned to become founders, funders, and changemakers.

This isn’t only an investment in students. It’s an investment in the future of your institution.

Programs like this:

  • Elevate your school’s reputation in tech and innovation circles

  • Support cross-campus collaboration between departments like business, engineering, and computer science

  • Build a foundation for long-term alumni giving and donor engagement—because students who build wealth early are far more likely to give back later

By preparing students to succeed in competitive industries, you position your institution to compete for talent, funding, and national visibility. You turn entrepreneurship into a strategic asset—not just a course.

The HBCUvc University Platform brings together everything your faculty need to deliver high-impact entrepreneurship education—without needing to build it from scratch. Designed for HBCUs, this platform includes a semester-ready curriculum, instructor support, and access to a national network of founders, investors, and innovation leaders. Whether you’re teaching business majors, collaborating across departments, or launching a new entrepreneurship initiative, we help you activate your students’ potential and your institution’s innovation capacity.

What’s Included in the University Platform

Startup & Capital Curriculum

A modular, 10-week curriculum that introduces students to entrepreneurship, venture creation, and the fundamentals of how capital works. Designed for undergraduate instruction across business, STEM, and social science departments.

  • Weekly lesson plans with slides, readings, and assignments

  • Designed for flexible delivery: live, hybrid, or asynchronous

  • Includes discussion prompts and project-based assessments

Faculty Onboarding & Implementation Support

Your faculty don’t need to be startup experts. We provide a structured onboarding process to help them confidently deliver the material and adapt it to your campus context.

  • Instructor guide with teaching notes and pacing suggestions

  • Optional virtual training session for faculty or teaching assistants

  • Office hours with the HBCUvc team for implementation support

 Guest Speaker & Alumni Access

Connect your students with real-world voices from our national network of investors, founders, and HBCUvc alumni working in innovation.

  • Two guest speaker sessions per academic year

  • Recommendations and templates for additional co-hosted events

  • “Powered by HBCUvc” badge for public recognition

Community-Driven Expansion Tools

As your innovation programs grow, we offer pathways to expand across departments or activate student experiences outside the classroom.

  • Planning toolkit for campus-wide entrepreneurship integration

  • Access to future cohorts of faculty, students, and events

  • Priority invites to HBCUvc’s annual Startup School and Faculty Innovation Tour

FAQs

  • The platform is designed for undergraduate entrepreneurship, business, engineering, and interdisciplinary programs. It can be embedded in an existing course, used as a capstone project foundation, or delivered as a new standalone offering.

  • Not at all. We designed this platform for faculty from a range of backgrounds. We provide instructor guides, sample lesson flows, optional training, and guest speakers—so your team can focus on facilitating, not inventing content.

  • Yes. The materials are modular and adaptable. You can run them over 10–12 weeks, compress them into a 4–6 week intensive, or expand into a full semester with extended projects and local industry engagement.

  • Not at all. In fact, we encourage cross-disciplinary use. Schools have successfully implemented this content across departments including engineering, computer science, health, and the arts to help students turn ideas into ventures.

  • This platform complements and strengthens existing efforts. It brings structured curriculum, industry access, and national visibility to what you’re already building—and gives your faculty more tools to do it with ease.

  • The HBCUvc University Platform is a paid offering designed to provide your faculty with high-impact curriculum, implementation support, and access to our national innovation network. Most partners invest between $15,000 and $25,000 per year, depending on the level of customization, training, and speaker engagement. We’re happy to tailor a proposal that aligns with your goals and academic calendar.

  • With both license tiers, you receive ongoing access to the HBCUvc team, email support, guest speaker coordination, and optional onboarding sessions. We’re a long-term partner, not just a content provider.

  • We recommend a 6–8 week onboarding timeline to give your faculty ample time to review the curriculum, attend an optional onboarding session, and align with your academic calendar. Some partners begin with a soft launch—such as a guest lecture or workshop—before fully integrating the platform into a course the following term.

Let’s Talk About Bringing HBCUvc to Your Campus

We’d love to learn more about your goals and explore how the HBCUvc University Platform can support your faculty, students, and campus innovation efforts. Complete the form and we’ll follow up to schedule a quick 15-minute call.

Whether you’re ready to implement next semester or just exploring options, we’re here to help.

We typically respond within 1–2 business days.
Calls are casual, no-pressure, and tailored to your campus needs.

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