GROVE CITY COLLEGE Education program competes for honor

Entrepreneur program nurtures undergraduates with hands-on experience.
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Grove City College's Entrepreneurship Program has been named one of two finalists for a national award sponsored by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
The National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Award recognizes excellence in entrepreneurship education.
Judges from nationally recognized entrepreneurship programs assessed the Grove City program based on its uniqueness, effectiveness, comprehensiveness and transferability.
Dr. James Dupree, professor of business and director of the program, wrote the college's entry in the Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program category.
Dupree touted the mentoring program which partners students with entrepreneurs to give them hands-on experience.
Dupree also highlighted the college's relationship 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 and the campus-wide Business Plan Competition.
The program, Dupree said, "prepares men and women of character to lead, innovate, and think entrepreneurial whether in business, ministry, or public service -- to be role models and job creators, rather than just job seekers."
What's next
A Grove City 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 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.