Changing Higher Ed

E296 - Using Entrepreneurship to Redesign the College Operating Model

Published: January 27, 2026

Duration: 38:40

In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Jeff Meade, Founding Director of the Every Quinnite is an Entrepreneur program at Paul Quinn College, about how the institution has embedded entrepreneurship into the operating model of the college itself.

Rather than treating entrepreneurship as an elective or a business school track, Paul Quinn uses it as a structural solution to some of higher education's biggest challenges: workforce readiness, student engagement, institutional costs, and student debt.

As one of only eight federally recognized work colleges in the United States, Paul Q...