Recently, University of Michigan Provost Martha Pollack announced that the school would soon launch a campus-wide entrepreneurship program. The Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan teamed to create a new master of entrepreneurship degree program in which students from every major can participate. The creation of this overarching entrepreneurship program makes its rich resources available to all students and encourages a greater degree of collaboration between students involved in radically different fields of study, generating innumerable opportunities for creativity and innovation as they gain access to local startups.
The campus-wide entrepreneurship program links several entrepreneurial programs developed at the University of Michigan in recent years. The initiative also creates an important precedent that may influence other institutions around the nation to offer similar opportunities for their students. Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate dean for entrepreneurial programs at the College of Engineering, designed the program. The University is currently funding the effort, but Zurbuchen plans to reach out to third-party investors in the near future.
