{"id":6256,"date":"2018-02-12T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:23:18","slug":"cfe-director-one-of-50-missourians-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/12\/cfe-director-one-of-50-missourians-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"CFE director one of &#8217;50 Missourians You Should Know&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/02\/Annette-Weeks.png\"><\/a> Annette Weeks, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in the Craig School of Business\n<p>Annette Weeks, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in the Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University, was recently featured as one of Ingram\u2019s Magazine\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ingrams.com\/article\/50-missourians-you-should-know-2018\/\">50 Missourians You Should Know<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeks is the Center for Entrepreneurship\u2019s founding director, accepting the position in 2014 after years of practical experience as a business owner and facilitator of entrepreneurs. The Center trains, mentors and supports business owners and entrepreneurs in the region, and has provided free consulting services to more than 400 new and existing entrepreneurs so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I do is nurture and encourage other people\u2019s dreams, but balance that with educating them and helping them understand the reality of business,\u201d Weeks told Ingram\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Entrepreneurship will hold its annual Entrepreneurship Week March 19-23, 2018. For more information on the week\u2019s activities and other services the Center provides, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/csb-cfe.missouriwestern.edu\/\">csb-cfe.missouriwestern.edu\/<\/a> or call Weeks at 816-271-4283.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Weeks, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in the Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University, was recently featured as one of Ingram\u2019s Magazine\u2019s \u201c50 Missourians You Should Know.\u201d Weeks is the Center for Entrepreneurship\u2019s founding director, accepting the position in 2014 after years of practical experience as a business owner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,27,48],"tags":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}