Your College World
The YCW Academic Network provides real-time, subject-focused communication portals for use by college students.
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Plano, TX, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded September 2008
- Employees 7
- Website yourcollegeworld.net
Company Summary
Your College World will bring learning and excitement to the same space for the post-secondary community. YCWs virtual community broadens intellectuals understanding of subject focused material, while allowing the academic experience to be captured in every aspect of social networking. By bringing social and academic networking to the same space, YCWs approach will bring a new level of interests and enthusiasm to the college world.
Team
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Carlton DinwiddieFounder/CEOFounder and CEO of Your College World, my corporate and academic background spans from business logistics and project management as well as post graduate philosophical studies.
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John RozeboomCo-Founder/COOCo-Founder and COO/CTO of Your College World, my corporate and academic background spans from banking, information technology consulting and development as well as obtaining a Master in Management.
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Phil BarnettChairman/Executive AdvisorThis is the most recent company he started following the Barnett, Downing and Hall Oil Properties in 1981 and then the 1988 creation of BBB International (global consumer packaged goods consultancy and marketing), then in 1994 Strategic Decisions (Internet consultancy) that was sold (1996) to EDS and subsequently evolved from Multimedia Technology Services into the Internet and New Media Group and eventually becoming the first interactive agency
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Dr. Cornel WestProfessor-Union Theological SeminaryDr. Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. He will return to Union Theological Seminary in June of 2012.
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Dr. Frank SprengProfessor-McKendree UniversityDr. Frank Spreng, Professor of Economics and Director of the MBA Program at McKendree University has taught for nearly 50 years at McKendree University, Methodist College, Richmond College in London and several others. Dr. Spreng received the 2010 United Methodist Exemplary Teaching Award awarded for exemplary teaching at United Methodist related institutions. In addition, Dr. Spreng is a member of the Illinois State Bar.
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Dr. Mohammed OmaryProfessor-University of North TexasDr. Mohammad Omary, Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science and Engineering at The University of North Texas, has been teaching at the university level since 1997. Dr. Omary received his B.S. from Yarmouk University in 1990, his M.S. from Yarmouk University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the University of Maine in 1997. Dr. Omary was a postdoctoral fellow from 1999-2001 at Texas A&M University. Dr. Omary joined the UNT faculty in 2001.
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Vijay VaidyanathanAssociate Dean-University of North TexasHe is passionate about undergraduate education and as a faculty member and former program coordinator, introduced many innovations in his courses in the classroom and the laboratory. He strongly believes that a faculty member’s efforts do not end at the classroom. Dr. Vaidyanathan understands it is important to remind the students about the pre-eminent role played by this country in originating most of today’s high technology and entrepreneurship
Advisors
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William Lovin and Associates LLCLawyerUnconfirmed
ADP Automated Data Processing, Inc.AccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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FounderUnconfirmed
Carlton DinwiddieUnconfirmed
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