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November 19, 2004
Grove City College Entrepreneurship Program one of two finalists for national award
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship recently selected Grove City College’s Entrepreneurship Program as one of two finalists for the 2005 USASBE National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Award. The award program recognizes excellence in entrepreneurship education.
Judges from nationally recognized entrepreneurship programs assessed the Grove City College Entrepreneurship Program based on its innovativeness, uniqueness, quality, effectiveness, completeness, comprehensiveness, sustainability and transferability.
Dr. James Dupree, professor of business and director of the Entrepreneurship Program, originally submitted a nomination for the Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program category. The nomination included a description of the program’s purpose, primary objectives, principal students and individuals, courses, unique aspects, funding sources, benefits and outcomes. Other categories included National Model MBA Entrepreneurship Program, National Model Ph.D. Entrepreneurship Program, Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Courses, Innovative Pedagogy for Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year.
In the nomination submission, Dupree discussed how Grove City College’s Entrepreneurship Program partners students with experienced mentors in entrepreneurship to give hands-on experience as well as advice from learned professionals in the field. Dupree also mentioned the program’s involvement with the Pittsburgh Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, the College’s summer entrepreneurship camp for minority high school students, the new Students in Free Enterprise chapter established at Grove City and the campus-wide Business Plan Competition. Dupree summarized the program by explaining how it “prepares men and women of character to lead, innovate, and think entrepreneurially whether in business, ministry, or public service—to be role models and job creators, rather than just job seekers.”
An entrepreneurship faculty member will attend the USASBE national conference in Indian Wells, Calif., Jan. 13-16, 2005. Finalists will submit a revised executive summary, supplementary materials and presentation slides as part of a 15-minute presentation delivered to a panel of judges. Winners will be announced and awards presented at the conference.
For more information on the Grove City College Entrepreneurship Program, contact Dupree at (724) 458-3354 or jvdupree@gcc.edu. This release is available for download at www.gcc.edu/news/releases/main. Media may contact Clingensmith for further details.
Grove City College is listed as one of the Most Competitive colleges in the nation by Barron’s. In its category, Grove City College is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 1 Best Value and No. 5 overall in the 2005 guide to America’s Best Colleges. Grove City College has also been called a “best value” and a “hidden treasure” by guidance counselors in the Kaplan National High School Guidance Counselor Survey, and is also the No. 16 Best Bargain school according to the Princeton Review. Founded in 1876, it is located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa. With an enrollment of 2,300 students, it is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. It is an advocate of the free market economic system and accepts no federal funding. Tuition is about half of the national average for private colleges.
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