Roderick (Shane) Snipes’s Profile

Assistant Professor, Business Management Deputy Department Chairperson, Founder of Citizenpreneurs.com, Academic Champion of Blackstone LaunchPad

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rsnipes@bmcc.cuny.edu

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Hello, my name is Dr. Shane Snipes and I am an assistant professor, deputy chair of the Business Management Department, and coordinator of an entrepreneurship degree program within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Under my guidance, the program has been awarded the NACCE Entrepreneurial Program Excellence Award in 2018, has been nominated for the USASBE Pedagogical Innovation Award, and was featured in the Federal Reserve Innovation Showcase in 2022. My main research focus is on how mindfulness practices can improve businesses and education. I have published several works related to empathy, self-efficacy, entrepreneurship education, research as teaching, and creating social impact through student-led, community-first undergraduate research. As a scholar/practitioner, I developed the Citizen Entrepreneur Explorers Program (CEEP), which requires students to share their findings about entrepreneurship with their communities. This program has influenced policy makers, community groups, and local business owners. The Kauffman Foundation has supported the expansion of the CEEP program nationwide to increase diversity in the scholar and researcher pipeline. In 2021, I helped bring the Blackstone Launchpad to our CUNY campus. This program teaches an entrepreneurial mindset to students across all majors, not just business students. I strongly advocate for more inclusion and diversity in all areas of education and innovation. Before working in higher education, I was a tech founder. I hold a BA in Cross-cultural Communication with a minor in engineering from N.C. State University, an MBA from Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania while working on Fulbright Research, and a PhD in Sustainability Education from Prescott College. When I’m not working, I enjoy kayaking, hiking, meditation, and cooking. I welcome the opportunity to connect with you on LinkedIn. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about me.

Dr. Snipes teaches and researches how mindfulness improves businesses and education. As a scholar/practitioner, he developed the Citizen Entrepreneur Explorers Program (CEEP) at Citizenpreneurs.com. In a unique twist in higher education, the CEEP program asks students to discover a question about entrepreneurship in their neighborhood, collect data, analyze it, then most importantly report it back to the community. Projects are influencing policymakers, community groups, and local business owners. Kauffman Foundation has funded the expansion of the CEEP program nationally to increase the diversity of researcher pipeline. During 2021, Dr. Snipes helped bring the Blackstone Launchpad to BMCC’s campus (http://bmcc.startuptree.co). The Launchpad teaches entrepreneurial mindset to all majors. He’s an advocate for more inclusion and diversity in all areas of education and innovation. Find out more about publications here – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-5256

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Business Management, Interdisciplinary

Business Administration, A.S., Business Management, A.A.S., Small Business Entrepreneurship, A.A.S.