About CCI

The Center for Creativity and Innovation (CCI) at the College of Wooster is located in Morgan Hall Room 301. CCI is open on College business days between the hours of 8am and 5pm. Individual appointments with members of the CCI leadership or community can be arranged by contacting the Center directly. The CCI director is Reuben Domike, Ph.D., and the leadership is supported by an Innovation Council composed of community business and campus academic leaders.  

Current CCI Innovation Council members

Lindsey Cramer, Iain Crawford, Shila Garg (chairperson), John Ramsay, Chris Schmid, Melissa Schultz, Richard Seaman, John Sell, Dee Vaidya, Chuck Wagers

Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program

The CCI was established early in 2007 as part of a wider Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program (NEOCEP) using resources generously granted by both the Burton D. Morgan Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation with partial matching funds from the College of Wooster.

About the Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program (NEOCEP) 

The Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program is a pilot program at five liberal arts colleges in Northeast Ohio: Baldwin-Wallace College, Hiram College, Lake Erie College, Oberlin College and The College of Wooster.  The goal of NEOCEP, part of the Kauffman CampusesSM Initiative, is for entrepreneurship to become a common and accessible educational experience for all liberal arts students.  The five-year initiative is dNovember 26, 2007culcating cross-campus entrepreneurship education ultimately resulting in new models that will extend well beyond the boundaries of the grantee institutions.  Kauffman CampusesSM is a service mark of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation used with permission. 

About the Burton D. Morgan Foundation (www.bdmorganfdn.org)

The mission of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation is to strengthen the free enterprise system by investing in organizations and institutions that foster the entrepreneurial spirit.  In 1967, Burton D. Morgan established the private foundation now based in Hudson, Ohio.  The primary purpose of the Foundation is to preserve and support the free enterprise system, which Mr. Morgan believed to be America’s greatest asset. 

About the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (www.kauffman.org)

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman.