Southeast Community College
business instructor Linda Hartman was honored recently with the annual Entrepreneurship
Educator of the Year Award for 2021. She received the award at the Nebraska
Entrepreneurship Best Practices Summit held in York.
“This award is very humbling as there are many excellent
entrepreneurship educators in the state,” Hartman said. “Working with
entrepreneurial students feeds my learner strength and allows me to keep
abreast of new industries and ideas in the business world.”
Hartman teaches business
courses at SCC, and she also works at the SCC Entrepreneurship Center and is a
tireless advocate for it, said Steve Bors, the former Center director who nominated
Hartman for the award.
“Linda has long been a
driving force in college-level entrepreneurship education,” Bors said. “She was
instrumental in assisting with the design of the entrepreneurship classes
taught in Nebraska’s community college system.”
Originally from Curtis,
Hartman earned her associate degree from McCook Community College, her
bachelor’s from Kearney State (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney), and
her masters from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught at SCC for 21
years.
The summit was the sixth held
in the state hosted by the statewide coalition, the Nebraska Entrepreneurship
Task Force. NETForce accepts nominations from across Nebraska prior to the
annual summit. The mission of NETForce is to identify and share resources to
further entrepreneurship through education, collaboration and innovation.