TeachingLIFE
President's message
The University of Manitoba is nurturing entrepreneurial thinking across our campus because, as a community, we want to pursue big ideas.
Entrepreneurship naturally welcomes interdisciplinary collaboration with partners within and beyond the university. It is a mindset that encourages taking risks and exploring ideas that may fail—but that journey is where discovery and deep learning can flourish. It is where competencies like empathy, problem solving, innovation and communication are developed.
We take this approach because we have a desire to make an impact and add value, wherever that may be—and that may not necessarily mean the launch of a business. We need social entrepreneurs who are driven to overcome challenges we face in society, from mitigating climate change to bolstering human health to advancing Reconciliation.
As a university for Manitoba, we increase our impact and foster greater innovation when we have the courage to be bold.
Michael Benarroch, PhD
President and Vice-Chancellor
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53
number of participants in the Lab2Market Prairies Cohorts since 2021
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New Faculty Specialist for Entrepreneurship hired
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12
number of pitches in the inaugural Faculty of Science 3K Science Spark Pitch Competition
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32
UM teams accepted into the 2023 New Venture Championships hosted by the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and innovative thinking
Message from Diane Hiebert-Murphy
Entrepreneurship in the classroom
We all have an idea of what we think entrepreneurship means. It is a business term, about taking a spark of an idea and starting a company. And it is that, but it is more than that. It is about taking a spark of an idea and creating change.
Entrepreneurship is becoming a foundational aspect of the student experience. Twenty UM students recently competed in Sprint to Innovate, where they had to solve problems put forward by local businesses. This year, the challenges included finding a way to improve snow clearing in Winnipeg, incentivizing the use of a commercial rental app, and engaging passengers in the airport while they wait to board a plane. Most often, people will start a new business because they see a gap in the market and think that they have a unique approach to filling that gap. When we think about entrepreneurship as applied to teaching and learning we can ask – what gaps are there and how can we fill them? This prompts us to look at our teaching, research, classrooms, syllabi, and coursework in a new way.
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The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is an academic support unit that provides leadership and expertise in furthering the mission of teaching and learning at the University of Manitoba.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovative Thinking Month
All throughout November, faculty, staff and students to participate in events that foster an entrepreneurial mindset.
About CATL
The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning provides leadership and scholarly developmental support for the growth and innovation of teaching and learning at the University of Manitoba. The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has six key areas of practice:
- Faculty development and consultation
- Curriculum development and renewal
- Research, evaluation and iInnovation
- Flexible learning course development and support
- UM Learn and solutions
- Strategic projects and programming
ResearchLIFE
ResearchLIFE is a publication of the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The magazine highlights the quest for knowledge that artists, engineers, scholars, scientists and students at UM explore every day.
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The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
University of Manitoba
65 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2, Canada