The Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship’s co-director Youngbok Ryu and graduate research assistant Katharine Lee are presenting at the NAEP’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The presentation will be divided into three parts.
In the first part, Dr. Ryu will discuss the barriers and opportunities for diverse small suppliers to enter the higher education procurement market. It will be based on the Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship’s 2022 report, “Promoting Supplier Diversity in Higher Education: Barriers and Opportunities,” which summarizes survey results from 359 suppliers.
In the second, Katharine Lee will describe the findings of an assessment of New England college and universities websites, drawn from a recent report titled “Addressing the Supplier Diversity Awareness Deficit.”
Finally, Dr. Ryu will describe a major planned survey of higher education procurement professionals in New England. Funded by a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the survey is designed to understand the challenges faced by procurement professionals in enlarging the pool of suppliers for their institutions