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Grove City Entrepreneurship Program Earns National Kudos
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College Entrepreneurship program was recognized recently by Business Reform magazine, which highlighted the best Christian business schools in the country. Business Reform, a bi-monthly magazine that began in January 2001, focuses on business news from a Christian perspective, according to a news release from Grove City College.In the September/October 2004 issue, the magazine dedicated a four-page spread to the top Christian business colleges. Spurred by the influx of scandal, corruption and controversy in the business world, Business Reform aimed to find the schools that were working to turn out moral business leaders who were grounded in biblical principles."The volatility and uncertainty of today's marketplace make the ability to think innovatively and entrepreneurial vital to both individual and national economic success," said Dr. James Dupree, professor of business and director of the entrepreneurship program at Grove City. "The ethical tensions and stresses and pressures of real world competition make the nurturing of students' individual Christian values and fostering of a Christian business ethic central to our educational process."Business Reform editors highlighted 10 undergraduate schools, in no particular order, and then made a top pick in five categories. Grove City College earned top honors in the "Most Degree and Course Options" category and was listed No. 5 in "Most Focused on Entrepreneurship and No. 5 in "Dean's Choice," the release stated.Full-time studies in entrepreneurship began at Grove City College in the fall of 2003 under the guidance of Dupree and Dr. John Sparks. After more than five years of planning, freshmen last fall made up the first class of students who could study under the major for all four years of their college career. Courses of study include: Entrepreneurship & Enterprise; Business Ethics; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Planning; E-Commerce; Organizational Communication/Consulting; Retail Marketing; Market Research; Sales and Sales Management; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Studies in Business, among other core business courses.The Entrepreneurship program has come a long way since its inception, with just five students starting in the major in the spring of 2002, when students were given the option to transfer in. This fall, there are 30 full-time majors in the program -- 16 freshman and 14 upper-class students.Several leadership groups have been formed and events and programs are up and running, officials said, including: Formation of an Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, made up of Grove City College alumni entrepreneursThe addition of Sherry Collins as assistant director of the program and part-time instructor Thomas DillenbergA summer entrepreneurship camp for inner city minority students from PittsburghAn entire issue of the Grove City College Alumni Magazine dedicated to entrepreneurship and successful alumni in the fieldThe annual student Business Plan Competition, now in its third year; and a new scholarship for an entrepreneurship student sponsored by Bill McDougall and Jim MacLaren, owners of REM Solutions, an international import/export company in Aliquippa, Pa.Along with Grove City College, undergraduate schools listed were Abilene Christian University and Baylor University, both in Texas; Belhaven College in Mississippi; Biola University in California, Calvin College in Michigan; Cedarville University in Ohio; Dordt College in Iowa; Eastern University in Pennsylvania; and Union University in Tennessee. The magazine also listed three stand-out schools for MBA programs: Baylor, Biola and Regent University in Virginia, according to the news release.With an enrollment of 2,300 students, Grove City College, founded in 1876,is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. The college 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, officials said.Visit Grove City College: www.gcc.edu"