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Message from the Director
Welcome to the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship! Thank you for visiting our site.
Entrepreneurship is a powerful word, and a powerful work. In past communications we have featured the relevance and importance of entrepreneurship to advancing a knowledge economy — to preparing individuals to successfully move innovation to capitalize on social, economic, environmental, and of course — commercial gains. Of how we position the entrepreneurial process and role of intellectual property to create a pedagogy that enables entrepreneurial thinkers. Thinkers that can solve problems, generate economies, improve standards of living.
In 2009, we are faced with unprecedented challenges of economy, health, and global unrest. Today, the communications of the power of entrepreneurship are in fact not lessened — but rather increased. Empowering the creation of economically viable solutions — solutions whose intended benefactors are both able and willing to access — is at the heart of regeneration and sustained economic, social, and environmental well being.
In these pages, you will get a glimpse of how the entrepreneurship knowledge base is being increased, taught, applied, and who is involved in it here at McGuire — and beyond McGuire.
About the McGuire Center
The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship was established in 1984. One of the first university-based centers for entrepreneurship, the center is one of the few to consistently maintain top tier ranking status.
Rankings and awards include #2 nationally by Entrepreneur / Princeton Review; #6 globally by Financial Times; #2 among public by U.S. News and World Report; National Model Program by United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
The Center houses the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program, open to graduate and undergraduate students from across the university, a variety of elective and stand alone courses, robust research agenda, and a rich community service mandate.
The Center is committed to enabling and advancing entrepreneurial goals of all university populations, and to advancing the understanding of the influence and role of entrepreneurship in both the business and academic ommunities.
Beyond the McGuire Center
For over two decades, the McGuire Center for entrepreneurship was the home to entrepreneurship at The University of Arizona. Today, we are pleased to say that is not the case! Through the vision and commitment of partners and supporters throughout the university, entrepreneurship offerings exist in a range of departments, colleges, and fields of study.
As you explore this site, you will find information related to other offerings, and links to programs that may fit your needs, whether you are a student, faculty, or community member with an interest in any of the following areas, you will find something for you. Keep in touch — new offerings are brought to life each semester!
- Arts and humanities
- Business
- Engineering
- Extension, outreach, and distance learning
- Law
- Medicine and health sciences
- Science
- Social sciences
If you are affiliated with an offering that we have not featured, please let us know so that it can be included.
Thank you for visiting.
Sherry Hoskinson
Managing Director
McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship
For additional information, view our brochure or contact us.
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