Syracuse University selected 2005 National Model Undergraduate Program in Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, January 17, 2005 Contact: Nola Miyasaki; 315-443-3445; nnmiyasa@syr.edu

Syracuse University has received the prestigious 2005 National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). USASBE is the premier organization for small business and entrepreneurship educators, with over 800 members. The USASBE awards are the most distinguished of their kind in the field of entrepreneurship education.

The National Model Undergraduate Program award is judged based on the quality and effectiveness, comprehensiveness, sustainability and transferability of the school's program. "This is truly one of the crowning achievements of creating a university based entrepreneurship program. To be recognized by a premier panel of experienced entrepreneurship educators and scholars as the best undergraduate program in the country, and given the relatively short period of time that our program has been in place, we are extremely pleased and honored to receive this award," noted Michael Morris, Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship, who also leads the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at the Whitman School of Management. He attributes the success of the program not only to the support of Syracuse University and the entire Syracuse community, but also to a committed team of faculty, staff and students.

Past model program winners have included Harvard, Babson, the University of Southern California, the University of Arizona, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Over 500 schools are eligible, and Syracuse University was selected based on a three-stage, competitive process that culminated in a team from the Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises Program (Nola Miyasaki, Minet Schindehutte, Eric Alderman, Craig Watters, and Michael Morris) making the final presentation at USASBE's annual conference on Friday, January 14, 2005.

For more information on the Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises Program at Syracuse University, go to www.whitman.syr.edu/eee.