
DR. CAROLINE GLACKIN, the director for innovation, entrepreneurship, & economic empowerment at Fayetteville State University, was recently named the USASBE 2022 Minority and Women Entrepreneurship Emerging Scholar.
“This is given to an emerging scholar/educator who has demonstrated early career success in minority and/or women's entrepreneurship and offers promise for further
advanced innovative research and/or instruction in this area,” a post from USASBE on LinkedIn read. “Congratulations, Caroline and thank you for your hard work and dedication.”
The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship is “an inclusive community advancing entrepreneurship education through bold teaching, scholarship, and practice,” the Facebook page reads.
In addition to her role at FSU, Glackin also serves as the associate editor of the International Journal of Instructional Cases, a role she was appointed to for a three-year term in 2020. More specifically, she is the associate editor of entrepreneurship.
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