The Columbia Student Enterprises mission is to provide students with a unique opportunity to cultivate and develop transferable entrepreneurship and enterprise management skills through developing, managing, and working for student-run businesses. Program participants emerge as experienced entrepreneurs, with a strong foundation of service leadership, business ethics, professional responsibility and recognition of the limitless career opportunities they will gain from this experience.

Columbia Student Enterprises

Columbia Bartending Agency and School of Mixology
Contact: (cbamanager@columbia.edu)

Columbia Tutoring and Translating Agency
Contact: (cutta@columbia.edu)

Inside New York
Contact: (info@insidenewyork.com)

The Program

Columbia Student Enterprise Managers are responsible for all business aspects of their enterprise. They will learn and develop valuable business, leadership and management skills. Managers receive a salary and are eligible for a bonus at the end of their term. The Center for Career Education provides advising in all areas, ensuring compliance with Columbia University and CCE policies; office space/equipment; administrative support and management training. 

The Columbia Student Enterprises operate under the auspices of Columbia’s Center for Career Education. Developing entrepreneurship and enterprise leadership skills is increasingly important for students to be successful in a wide variety of jobs across the for-profit, non-profit, and public sectors.

The Experiential Education and Student Enterprises (EESE) department within CCE is responsible for the Columbia Student Enterprises program including overseeing and advising the student enterprises as well as the individual student managers and employees. Management training, IT planning and support, educational workshops, and individualized consulting are a few of the services that the department offers students in the program to facilitate career and personal development and help students achieve business success with their enterprises.

In addition to management positions, there are over 200 part-time positions available within the enterprises such as bartending, tutoring, translating, layout, writing, and advertising sales. Interested students should contact the enterprises directly about their numerous part-time opportunities (see contact information above).

To learn more about the Student Enterprises program, please contact Heather Perceval at hjc2105@columbia.edu  

Upcoming Information Sessions

Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:00pm
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:30pm
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:30pm

Center for Career Education, Conference Room