An $18,000 Coleman Foundation grant will enable five UNCG faculty to infuse their diverse classes — on subjects from hospitality and tourism to music — with entrepreneurship skills.

The five Coleman Fellows are funded through the Bryan School of Business and Economics with a grant from the Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program. Dr. Dianne H.B. Welsh wrote and directs the grant. Welsh secured a $15,000 Coleman Foundation grant last year.

The Coleman Foundation Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2011-12 are Jennifer Yurchisin, professor of consumer apparel and retail sales; Bonnie Canziani, professor of hospitality and tourism; Justin Streuli, Living Learning Community coordinator; Stoel Burrowes, professor of interior architecture; and David Holley, music professor and director of UNCG Opera. Burrowes and Holley also received Coleman funds last year, and that funding has been extended.

Yurchisin, Canziani and Streuli are revamping their courses to include hands-on learning in a student-managed retail store; Burrowes is preparing a course on design perspectives; and Holley is designing a course in entrepreneurship in music. The fellowships last a year.

The retail store, due to open in January, will be located in the Spring Garden Street Apartments. Students in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community will manage the store as part of their curriculum.

Welsh, founder and director of the Entrepreneurship Cross-Disciplinary Program and Charles A. Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Bryan School of Business and Economics, directs the Coleman Faculty Fellows Program. Welsh is former director of the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center at UNCG.

The Chicago-based Coleman Foundation is a private, independent foundation that has worked to advance entrepreneurship through its grantmaking efforts. The foundation was endowed by the estates of Dorothy W. and J.D. Stetson Coleman who were committed entrepreneurs.

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