Abstract
The legacy of deindustrialization and associated underemployment continues to plague many former industrial communities. In these spaces, universities serve as anchors providing gateways for individual economic empowerment, and as ‘brain centers’ charged with generating solutions for societal problems. This paper explores the development of The Center for Strategic Ingepreneurship (CSI) at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Strategic Ingepreneurship is seen here as a practical, innovative, solution-based approach to address under-performing job creation. The Center will serve as a university-based entity to facilitate the development and dissemination of ingepreneurial knowledge and skills through research, teaching, and practice.
Highlights
Like many former industrial hubs, Baltimore City’s current landscape includes communities suffering the effects of disinvestment, joblessness, poverty, crime, and an aging housing stock
We are at a pivotal juncture in the social and economic evolution of our nation, regarding the shift from an industrial economy to a techno-informational, service economy
While many economists make assertions about the driving forces, the result is that the bottom 90% of the population have experienced decline in real income since the 1970s (Kruggman, 2004). This reality is evident in large segments of the population that have not retrained or migrated to meet new workforce demands, in urban areas where manufacturing employment and educational opportunities were plentiful and provided pathways to higher standards of living
Summary
Like many former industrial hubs, Baltimore City’s current landscape includes communities suffering the effects of disinvestment, joblessness, poverty, crime, and an aging housing stock. For “children growing up in families at the 25th percentile of the national income distribution” each additional year in Baltimore City appears to have a -0.86% impact on adulthood earnings (Chetty & Hendren, 2015) This is relevant for communities immediate to CSU wherein high numbers of children are growing up beneath the poverty line. CSU currently enrolls a student population close to three thousand This population is over eighty percent (80%) African American, almost fifty-percent (50%) residents of Baltimore City, and largely in need of financial assistance (Coppin State University 2013 – 2020 Strategic Plan, p.8). On the community level, cultivating a critical mass of aspiring ingepreneurs can potentially deconcentrate disadvantage and affect cultural shifts to improve attitudes, perception, and overall quality of life in the community
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