Clyde C. Miller kids take crash course in business
SLU program provokes high school students to become entrepreneurs
By American staff
On Friday, April 29, 150 local high school students from Clyde C. Miller Career Academy visited the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University for a day-long seminar about becoming an entrepreneur.
Dr. Jerome Katz of Saint Louis University discussed business planning, and
Julius Hunter, the university’s vice president of community relations, gave an inspirational speech about following your dream.
The students then heard from a panel of African-American entrepreneurs – Eddie Davis, founder and president of Integrity Recyclers; Cassandra Joliff, president and founder of Joliff Marketing; and Tariq Ahmed, president and founder of Incredible Web Company – who spoke on the general theme “Opportunity knocks for everyone.”
The program was a joint presentation of the St. Louis-based National Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship and the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University.
The aims of the event, according to Kevin Schulte, director of the Jefferson Smurfit Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, were “to continue to educate the business leaders of tomorrow and expand the pool of economic leaders of tomorrow, from an economic development standpoint, and to inspire kids to follow their dreams.”
Jessica Miller, a senior at Clyde C. Miller who plans to study psychology next year at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, said, “I got a chance to talk to Jerome Katz about opening my own psychology clinic. It expanded my horizons as a potential entrepreneur. It was a really good program.”
