This paid fellowship is designed to provide students who have an interest in entrepreneurship with exposure to entrepreneurial thinking and skill through training, practice, and service to the community. CEED Fellows provide operational support to the Center in areas closely aligned with their entrepreneurial interest or major of choice and actively engage with the programs CEED offers.

Pitch Creator equips students with three pitch types to fit any situation (email, elevator, and investor). At the culmination of the program, students will have an opportunity to pitch to local judges in the business community for prizes.

Business Case Competitions are 48-hour innovation sprints which encourages students to analyze and propose innovative solutions to real-world challenges related to corporate, civic and social initiatives. The competitions lead up to the C.A.S.E. competition at the University of Texas in San Antonio where CEED will send 2 NCCU teams to compete in the national conference.   

The Experiential (ExEC) Bootcamp is an 8-15 week immersive program that places students in a real-world startup founded by the student, while simultaneously teaching key concepts for startup success. Each session covers tools and concepts that every entrepreneur should understand. At the end of the course students will have discovered, validated, and launched a viable business.

Research and Innovation Venture Accelerator (RIVA) is an interdepartmental accelerator where faculty innovations are led through a streamlined commercialization process. The program works with faculty to bypass common inhibitors to successful venture commercialization by employing the resources and expertise of key units across campus and the community. 

Faculty Entrepreneurship Certification Program provides NCCU faculty the opportunity to learn how to integrate entrepreneurial thinking into established or new curricula.