WELLESLEY -- Sixty-six leading entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship professors are gathering in teams at Babson College to create intellectual and practical connections between theory and practice in teaching entrepreneurship.

Participants in the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators program are exploring the entrepreneurial process, the "art and craft" of teaching and learning entrepreneurship. The program provides an introduction to case-method teaching and live, venture-based teaching methodologies.

The attendees, from 29 institutions in countries around the world including the Pacific Rim, Europe, and Latin America, are encouraged to identify, plan, and personalize their own entry (or reentry) strategy into academia, and to improve as teachers, entrepreneurs, learners, researchers, and colleagues.

"At the heart of the program is a belief that entrepreneurship teaching effectiveness can be learned and must forever improve," says Stephen Spinelli, Jr., Babson vice-provost for Entrepreneurship and Global Management.

Instructors include Spinelli and other Babson entrepreneurship faculty: Jeffry Timmons (program founder), Patti Greene, Heidi Neck, and Leslie Charm. Session topics include Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory, New Venture Creation, Entrepreneurial Finance, Educator's Toolbox, Challenges in the "Clashroom," Entrepreneurship Curriculum Design, and The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action.

More than 1,200 academics and entrepreneurs from 355 academic institutions, government organizations, and foundations in 48 countries are alumni of Price-Babson and other Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators programs.

The program, which begins on May 30th, runs through June 2, 2006, at the Babson Executive Conference Center. For information, visit http://cspot01.babson.edu/ESHIP/outreach-events/symposia/price-babson.cfm

Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit http://www.babson.edu/.