| Unique Aspects of the Faculty and the Method of Instruction
The senior faculty at John Paul the Great Catholic University have real world industrial experience as innovators and creators, leaders and entrepreneurs - all with advanced degrees. They are recognized for their significant accomplishments in industry. They are seasoned teachers, with numerous years of classroom experience. While actively consulting to industry, faculty also mentor, encourage, and help students in their efforts to ideate new business concepts. The curriculum focuses on invention, innovation, creativity, business, and the creation of sustainable companies.
The Senior Business Plan is a significant 2-year long business planning and implementation exercise that brings together the student's passions and talents, teaches a real world application of learned and researched technical and business principles, and is guided by Catholic ethical, moral and social principles. John Paul the Great Catholic University is the first university to require all of its students to participate in a major business planning and commercialization project. To achieve JP Catholic’s mission to influence the marketplace and workplace with moral, social, and ethical values, the Founders have set a goal that 50% of all graduating students will continue with their Senior Thesis Business Plan enterprise after graduation. Faculty will be major catalysts and play a strong mentoring and coaching role in student business plan activities.
The method of instruction is traditional direct instruction delivered live in a classroom. This is supplemented by seminars, workshops, and lectures by guest speakers. JP Catholic organizes and hosts colloquia featuring leaders in the fields of media, technology, and business. Hands-on laboratory instruction is required in the technology and media courses. Tutorials will provide the student with out-of-classroom assistance on course materials. The teaching technique involves active participation by the student through course projects that expose the students to real businesses, real products and services, and real markets.
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