The Case of Santa Barbara City College

This chapter discusses the use of the RISE by the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Santa Barbara City College. It describes the Center’s mission, vision, programming, student body, and facilities. The Center has been using the RISE assessment in its Get REAL Accelerator program and in its Scheinfeld Interns Program. The chapter shares how the assessment was implemented and provides quantitative and qualitative measures of the outcomes. In addition, it discusses the use of the RISE in the Introduction to Entrepreneurship course, which brought the assessment into the curriculum, familiarizing students with the tool and its capability for enhancing their educational experience, creating a pipeline of students who can take full advantage of this capability through the programs of the Center.