GRANTS ALLOW UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO BE PLACED IN INTERNSHIPS

The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Small Business Management in the Donald L. Harrison College of Business at Southeast Missouri State University has been awarded a 1999 Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program grant.

The grant from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation paves the way for 10 master's in business administration students and 20 undergraduate students to be placed in internships during the 1999-2000 academic year.

Students who participate will each earn three credit hours and receive a scholarship or stipend."Until recently, American business has never really encouraged the entrepreneurial spirit," said Dr. Jack Sterrett, director of Southeast's entrepreneurial studies center and chairman of the marketing department."Yet, it's entrepreneurial small businesses that are claiming most of the new-to-the-world innovations in business today, and most of the changes in the labor force, including job creation, are coming from entrepreneurial small businesses as well," he said.

The Kauffman Center was established in 1992.