The University
of Alabama has been identified for designation as an Undergraduate Model
Program on a new entrepreneurship website, EntrepreneurshipEDU.org. The website focuses on
undergraduate entrepreneurship education, according to Wes Creel, a representative
of the website. A graduate school website will be launched later this spring,
Creel said.
“I think this
is another indication that the entrepreneurship program at The University of
Alabama is headed in the right direction,” said Dr. Louis Marino, professor of
strategic management and coordinator of the UA entrepreneurship program.
Marino, who also is the executive director of the Alabama Entrepreneurship
Institute, said a number of entrepreneurship activities are planned for 2010.
“We will sponsor
a youth entrepreneurship camp, start a Boy Scout merit badge in
entrepreneurship, conduct several entrepreneurship competitions and take part
in the National Entrepreneurship Week activities in February again,” Marino
said. “Entrepreneurship is an increasingly powerful force in the global
economy.”
The initial website focuses on
undergraduate 
entrepreneurship
education. The undergraduate website’s audience is America’s college-bound
community, including high school students, their families, high school
counselors; other secondary school interested parties such as business and
entrepreneurship teachers and school organization advisors; youth mentors in
such organizations as Junior Achievement, leadership programs at chambers of
commerce, boys and girls clubs and YMCA. Also included are the
media and all U.S. colleges and universities.
Each of the 20-25 selected
model programs will have a full model
program article about their specific entrepreneurship program as well as a
multi-page school profile. Institutions will be able to submit other articles
and current
student or alumni success stories.
In addition to The
University of Alabama, the following schools have to date, been
selected as undergraduate model programs: Babson, Penn, Syracuse, UNC
Chapel Hill, Indiana University, University of Texas Austin, St. Louis
University, TCU,
Wake Forest, Belmont, Cornell, UC Berkeley, University of Illinois, University
of Michigan, Washington University, UW Madison, Washington State, University of
Cincinnati, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford.