ü      In fall 2006 Entrepreneurship became its own department with two members of the business department (Dr. Timothy Mech and Dr. Linda Christie) joining Dr. Jim Dupree (Executive Director and Chair) and Professor Tom Dillenburg as Entrepreneurship faculty members. 

ü      Dr. David Miller-Martini joined the program as the new director in December 2006.  

ü      Both fall 2006 and spring 2007 sessions of the Visionary Entrepreneurs Speakers’ Series are being offered to the campus community and general public through a grant from the Coleman Foundation.

ü      Drs. Jim Dupree and Linda Christie will be offering Grove City College students a May 2007 Intersession course in China entitled Contemporary Business and Entrepreneurship, and Dr. Tim Mech will be offering Teaching Basic Business Skills in the Ukraine.

ü      An Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, with 16 alumni and entrepreneurial friends of the College, meets biannually to act as a sounding board for ideas, opportunities, new curriculum and programs, and for the setting of priorities.

ü      A $150,000 three-year grant has been received from The Coleman Foundation for teaching entrepreneurship across all academic disciplines and for curriculum development.

ü      Deep Springs International, winner of the 2006 Non-Profit Business Plan Competition, launches with the mission of providing safe drinking water to impoverished nations.

ü      Entrepreneurship Scholarships awarded in 2006-07 to students included the Joseph C. Cicero, Jr. scholarship, Quaker Capital Management Corporation, REM Solutions, James Clifford M.D. '52 Estate, and the newly endowed F.W. Knecht III Memorial Entrepreneurship Scholarships.

ü      The Entrepreneurship Program was selected as one of two finalists for the 2005 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s (USASBE) Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program.

ü     Future courses include Entrepreneurial Solutions to World Poverty and Internet Entrepreneurship.  The pilot class High Tech Ventures will again be conducted as a cross-disciplinary course for Computer Science, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship students.

ü      Enrollment has grown from 5 to 75 majors, and non-business students may choose to minor in Entrepreneurship.

Grove City College Entrepreneurship Program Information Book