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FGCU's Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community

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Lutgert College of Business

We’re going to learn more about a new and innovative way to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and spirit among college students. We’ll meet two women behind the new Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community that’s starting at Florida Gulf Coast University this fall. We’re joined by Dr. Sandra Kauanui, Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management at Florida Gulf Coast University, and Annie Stout, who teaches management at FGCU.

The Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community is open to students of all majors who want to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. This program will provide access to experienced mentors, and the ability to take advantage of unique networking opportunities. This program will focus on learning how to create business models that are environmentally and socially sustainable.

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.