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Area Entrepreneurship Program Wins National Kudos
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Entrepreueurship Program at Grove City College has been selected by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship as one of two finalists for the 2005 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, according to Dr. James Dupree, professor of business and director of the college's program.Dupree 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. In the nomination submission, he 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. He 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 serviceĀto be role models and job creators, rather than just job seekers." An entrepreneurship faculty member will attend the association's national conference in Indian Wells, Calif., Jan. 13 to 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.Founded in 1876, Grove City College is located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. With an enrollment of 2,300 students, it is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. As an advocate of the free market economic system, the college accepts no federal funding. Visit Grove City College: www.gcc.edu"