Student entrepreneurs have the opportunity to participate in Randal Pinkett’s Campus CEO Challenge as part of the IFEL North Jersey Business Plan competition.  For additional details please click here.  Deadline for submission of executive summaries is January 14, 2009.  The Competition will culminate with an awards luncheon on April 30, 2009 at New Jersey Institute of Technology Campus Center. The business plan competition is part of the North Jersey Partners WIRED (Workforce Innovation for Regional Economic Development) grant.   >>

Randal D. Pinkett, PhD, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, located in NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center, will discuss how students can take the entrepreneurial leap by starting and running a profitable business on Oct. 3, 3-4:30 p.m. in the Jim Wise Theater in Kupfrian Hall. >>

Randal D. Pinkett, the first African-American named a Rhodes Scholar from Rutgers University, will be the keynote speaker at a National TriO Day event on February 26, 2005 at 9 a.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. TRiO is a series of federally-funded programs aimed to help low-income, first-generation students attend college. National TriO Day will feature workshops, career sessions and a town hall meeting during which 650 current and former TRiO students from across the state will discuss their accomplishments. For more information, contact Anthony C. Culpepper, Jr. at 973-596-6505; culpeppe@adm.njit.edu >>