UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University are among eight schools nationwide to receive a prestigious
grant from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. UNC will receive $3.5 million and Wake Forest will receive
$2.16 million to make entrepreneurship education available across campus. Under the Kauffman Campuses
Initiative, selected schools must match the Kauffman grant at least 2-to-1.
With its grant, UNC-Chapel Hill will create the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative, which will focus
on creating traditional business entrepreneurs, as well as social, civic and academic entrepreneurs.
UNC's initiative will build a permanent foundation of faculty expertise, educational opportunities
for students and productive engagement with the wider entrepreneurial community. Wake Forest's g rant
will help establish a university-wide office of entrepreneurship and liberal arts, adding new entrepreneurship
courses and faculty, creating a university Center for Entrepreneurship, and developing a fifth-year
entrepreneurship institute for recent university graduates pursuing new ventures.
A panel of judges selected the eight universities from 15 finalist schools that participated in the six-month
Kauffman Campuses competition. In June, each of 15 finalist schools received a $50,000 planning grant
by the Kauffman Foundation to develop and submit an innovative and comprehensive five-year plan to inject
entrepreneurship training and experiences into the culture of the university. Visit http://www.kauffman.org/pages/396.cfm for
more details on the grants.