UC Davis Graduate School of Management Receives $2 Million Bequest to Encourage Entrepreneurship
UC Davis Graduate School of Management Receives $2 Million Bequest to Encourage Entrepreneurship
The University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management has announced a multi-million dollar bequest from alumnus Charles J. Soderquist to encourage entrepreneurship in the state.
Half of the $2 million gift will go toward establishing an endowment for the school's Center for Entrepreneurship, which got its start in 2004 with an entrepreneurship class co-taught by Soderquist. Since then, the center has enrolled more than forty doctoral candidates in its year-long Business Development Fellows program and more than three hundred national and international participants in its entrepreneurship academies. The remainder of the gift will be used to create the Charles J. Soderquist Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, which will be held by Andrew Hargadon, the center's director.
"The idea was to create a program that would not just teach entrepreneurship but create entrepreneurs," said Hargadon. "We felt that UC Davis, with all of its science and engineering talent, could blossom if entrepreneurs helped bring those ideas out of the laboratories and into the broader world."
“$2 Million Gift to Spark Entrepreneurship at UC Davis.”
University of California, Davis Press Release
11/02/09.
Primary Subject: Education
Secondary Subject(s): Higher Education
Location(s): California, Davis
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