It's been a whirlwind month here in Ann Arbor with classes restarting, and our experiential learning programs continuing to evolve and adapt to COVID's impact. We sincerely hope each of you have been able to do the same without incurring too much additional stress.
Some of these adaptations have created unprecedented opportunities to leverage our remotely-based network; we've created 'co-host' roles for our flagship course and have been able to secure some incredible entrepreneurs for our class of 315 entrepre-curious students. Anna Mason, Karl Iagnemma ('94), Maayan Ziv, and Justin Mast ('12) are among those who recently agreed to join us this semester!
If you want to join the fun and can spare an hour, we need judges for our virtual student innovation challenge on Sept. 30 and would love to have your help (more below).
Lastly, we are always excited to hear about how your company/organization is adapting to our new reality and welcome replies that we could broadcast to the larger community. If you have ideas for helping students or fellow alumni, or if you want to get more involved, just reply to this email and we'll get back to you with more info.
Thank you for supporting the CFE, stay healthy, and Go Blue!
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