Case Study: The University of North Carolina Greensboro

Entrepreneurship Education (EE) was first a topic of interest at UNCG through a state-wide proposed grant. The Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, approached the University of North Carolina System (UNC System) to fund entrepreneurship efforts on 16 of the 17 state campuses in the state. UNC Chapel Hill already had a Kauffman Foundation grant as part of an earlier cycle called the Kauffman Campuses℠ Initiative launched in 2003 that included $25 million to eight campuses: Florida International University, Howard University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Rochester, University of Texas at El Paso, Wake Forest University, and Washington University in St. Louis. The Second Round Kauffman Campuses were awarded $23 million in 2006 and included: Arizona State University, Georgetown University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. In part, due to an outcry from smaller universities and colleges for not being included in the first two grant rounds, the Kauffman Foundation, in partnership with the Burton D. Morgan Foundation, formed the Northeast Ohio Entrepreneurship Program that included Hiram College, Baldwin-Wallace College, Lake Erie College, Oberlin College, and The College of Wooster (Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education, 2008).