Dream Big

The Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community (ERLC) has 64 residents living in Sellery Hall. The ERLC's mission is to teach students to put their ideas into action through the entrepreneurial process. Whether you are undecided, or thinking of majoring in art history, engineering, business, or something else the ERLC can benefit you by teaching the entrepreneurial process of:

• Imagining and assessing opportunities
• Harnessing key resources to make real your ideas (people, funds, structure)
• Learning from doing (tactics and goals)
• Creating new sources of value (profit/nonprofit, private/social good)

Faculty and staff from across campus provide leadership for the ERLC. Professor Anne Miner, from the Wisconsin School of Business, is the Faculty Director. Professor Miner teaches the exclusive ERLC course "Entrepreneurship in Society."; All ERLC residents are asked to enroll in this 3-credit course, which fulfills general education requirements and provides students with access to faculty and community members on a personal basis. The ERLC class is taught in Sellery Hall.

What else does ERLC do?

• The ERLC has fun! With a floor full of interesting people (last year's cohort had 34 men and 30 women, from 16 different states and 6 countries) - meeting new friends is a breeze.
• The ERLC hosts monthly dinners with area entrepreneurs and business leaders, providing a forum for making connections and learning from others willing to share their experiences and guidance.
• Using funds allocated within the ERLC to assist students in creating their own ventures, the ERLC has sponsored plans for a social photography business, an environmentally friendly t-shirt company, a landscape design firm, and two UW-Madison student organizations. Bring your own ideas and we'll be here to help!
• The ERLC offers residents the opportunity to assist UW-Madison professors with cutting edge research - something few first-year students get the chance to do.
• The ERLC extends beyond campus. Students have traveled to Chicago to talk with University of Wisconsin alumni, attend a Second City performance, and shop a little too. Visits to local Madison companies are frequent as well.

The ERLC is located in Sellery Hall and committed to the celebration of entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation in society. Meet students with intellectual curiosity and a passion for entrepreneurial undertakings. Be ready for late night brainstorming in this entrepreneurial "think-tank." Exchange ideas with people like you and become a part of a campus and city wide network of social, business, and artistic entrepreneurs.

You will leave the ERLC with great friends, amazing connections, and a marketability that will be the envy of your peers.

ERLC features plus all features of Sellery Hall

$200 program fee

Activities include:

• (Fall Only) Essential, 3 credit cutting-edge course on entrepreneurship held at Sellery Hall. Plan on taking this course 1st semester when you register for SOAR. Learn more about the ERLC Seminar.
• ERLC residents also have access to reserved courses taught in the residence halls.
• Dinners with prominent faculty and area business and government leaders
• Tours of Madison-area incubators and companies
• Fund for ERLC special activities – trips to Chicago, dinners on the town, apprentice style competitions

Spring ERLC Course

The spring ERLC course is a 1 credit experimental seminar

What is the general purpose of the seminar?

The seminar's goals are to help resident continue to deepen their ability to act entrepreneurially, and their ability to think analytically about how Eship affects society.

The spring seminar focuses on short readings or attending actual events, and related discussion and debate. In some class sessions discussion will center around resident assessment of an event such as the Schoofs competition or the Burrill competition.

The spring seminar is a chance for dialogue, debate, and 1 to 1 conversation with ERLC peers and faculty.

Arrival

When you arrive we have some things already planned to help you form as a community and introduce you to campus. There will be tons of Wisconsin Welcome Events held at Sellery Hall (BBQs, House Competitions like Tug- of – War, Jell-o Wrestling, movie nights and more) but with the ERLC we also have planned some specific events just for our community of 65.

• Parent Reception on move in day with ERLC Faculty
• ERLC Dinners focusing on boosting your networking skills and meeting Faculty and Community Entrepreneurs who have turned their ideas into action!
• Leadership Workshop – with UW’s Adventure Learning Program