Since 1981, the Coleman Foundation has supported entrepreneurship education at the colleges and universitiies 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). 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. Rod Shrader - University of Illinois at Chicago | Est. 1981
Phone: 312.613.3120 Email: rshrader@uic.edu

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

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

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

Dr. Jerome Katz - Saint Louis University | Est. 1991
Phone: 314.977.3764 Email: katzja@slu.edu

Chair vacant - Illinois Institute of Technology | Est. 1982

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

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

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

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

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