Since 1981, the Coleman Foundation has supported entrepreneurship education at the college level in part through the establishment of the Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship at various institutions. Together these entrepreneurship experts form the Coleman Council for Entrepreneurship Awareness and Education (CEAE). The following is a listing of current council members, their institutions and the year the chair was established at that institution.

For more detailed information on the work of the CEAE, please see the foundation's 2004 publication "Advancing Entrepreneurship Education"

Dr. Gerald Hills - University of Illinois at Chicago | Est. 1981
Phone: 312.996.9130 | Fax: 312.413.1265 | Email: gehills@uic.edu

Dr. Gary Wilson - Elmhurst College | Est. 1982
Phone: 630.617.3785 | Fax: 630.617.6497 | Email: garyw@elmhurst.edu

Dr. David Pistrui - Illinois Institute of Technology | Est. 1982
Phone: 312.567.3948 | Fax: 312.567.3950 | Email: pistrui@iit.edu

Dr. Harold Welsch - DePaul University | Est. 1985
Phone: 312.362.8471 | Fax: 312.362.5189 | Email: hwelsch@depaul.edu

Dr. Jerry Gustafson - Beloit College | Est. 1986
Phone: 608.363.2343 | Fax: 608.363.2718 | Email: gustafsj@beloit.edu

Dr. Alex Stewart - Marquette University | Est. 1987
Phone: 414.288.7188 | Fax: 414.288.2599 | Email: alex.stewart@marquette.edu

Dr. Gary Ernst - North Central College | Est. 1998
Phone: 630.637.5472 | Fax: 630.637.5260 | Email: garenst@noctrl.edu

Dr. Timothy Stearns - California State University Fresno | Est. 1999
Phone: 559.347.6834 | Fax: 559.294.6655 | Email: timothys@csufresno.edu

Dr. Joseph S. Roberts - Columbia College Chicago | Est. 2002
Phone: 312.344.7681 | Fax: 312.344.8063 | Email: jroberts@colum.edu

Dr. Sharon Alpi - Millikin University | Est. 2004
Phone: 217.424.6285 | Fax: 217.424.3523 | Email: salpi@mail.millikin.edu

Dr. Jerry Katz - Saint Louis University | Est. 2005
Phone: 314.977.3764 | Fax: 314.977.3627 | Email: katzja@slu.edu