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UNCG Business Librarian Steve Cramer has won the PrivCo Prize for Excellence in Business Librarianship.  The PrivCo Prize is awarded to the librarian deemed best to embody the core values of the profession, and the winner is selected by an independent committee of leading business librarians committed to the adoption of best practices in the community. In addition to giving careful consideration to the resourceful application of business librarianship and the anticipation of continued achievement in the field, the judging panel took into consideration effectiveness in the areas of:     innovation     impact     community outreach     capacity building     creativity     leadership "Especially notable was Steve's appointment as a UNCG Coleman Fellow for Entrepreneurship as well as being selected as an assistance director within the program. He has maximized his instructional impact ...

Steve Cramer, the UNCG Business Librarian, is one of the new Coleman Faculty Fellows for 2013-14. According to the Coleman Foundation , the Coleman Fellows are “typically professors from outside the school of business at their institution” who “engage in the development of courses and leadership of projects in support of entrepreneurship education on their campus.” Steve was recruited for the fellowship by the Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship Dianne Welsh, with whom he collaborates on teaching and research projects. Steve is creating the course “ENT/LIS/GEO 530, Researching Opportunities in Entrepreneurship  & Economic Development”, to be offered in Spring 2014. The course will be cross-listed with the Geography and Library & Information Studies departments and will be open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Besides creating and teaching the interdisciplinary class, the Coleman Fellows also are required to participate in learning and networ...

Steve Cramer, the UNCG business librarian, led a feasibility workshop with 25 visiting German university students on August 6. They were Fulbright students from all over Germany participating in a month-long entrepreneurship-themed Summer Institute Program. The students are engaging in language development, community service, and entrepreneurship education, as well as enjoying field trips to the North Carolina mountains, Disney World (in part to get a taste of its intern program), and Washington D.C. Only about half of the students are business majors. Joe Erba, a UNCG Entrepreneurship faculty member who often collaborates with Steve, had been working with the students and introduced Steve. Joe and Steve began by asking each student to describe his/her Germany-based business idea, which they were assigned to come up with over the weekend. One interesting proposed idea was a kangaroo farm in Bavaria to sell the meat (including a kosher herd). Another student was impressed wi...