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GONZAGA UNIVERSITY TO CELEBRATE HOGAN
ENTREPRENEUR CENTER DEDICATION DEC. 10
Administrators, benefactors, faculty and students will
celebrate the opening of the Hogan Entrepreneur Center
at Gonzaga University, located in Spokane, Wash., with
a dedication ceremony Friday, Dec. 10 at 3:45 p.m.
Gonzaga President Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., School
of Business Administration Dean Clarence Barnes, and
Ed and Lynn Hogan, founders and benefactors of the Hogan
Program, will participate in the dedication. In addition
to providing ongoing operational support for the Hogan
Program, the Hogans contributed a major lead gift for
the Hogan Entrepreneur Center.
The Hogan Entrepreneur Center is the new home of the
Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. The Center
features a sophisticated classroom, two New Venture
Lab rooms, an executive Board room, study areas and
administrative offices. The New Venture Labs provide
students and mentors with a highly functional work area
for research, data analysis and business planning for
entrepreneurial projects.
The Hogan Entrepreneur Center is part of a 32,000-square-foot
expansion of the Jepson Center, home to Gonzaga’s
School of Business Administration. When completed in
spring 2005, the 64,000-square-foot Jepson Center will
house 11 new classrooms, a new 45-station computer lab,
the Graduate School of Business, 12 new faculty and
staff offices, Gonzaga’s Institute of Ethics and
a 300-seat auditorium. A new student lounge and café
overlooking Lake Arthur and an expanded faculty/staff
lounge also are part of the building’s expansion.
Paul Buller, director of the Hogan Program, is thrilled
with the expanded space. "This new space provides
our students with an environment conducive to creativity
and learning," Buller said. "Our students
have consistently proven themselves over the past four
years to be academically focused and this new space
will help to further our students’ education and
the program at large."
The Hogan Program serves majors from nearly every academic
department at Gonzaga. The average class size is 25
students with majors in business (39 percent), College
of Arts and Sciences (38 percent), engineering (23 percent)
and education (4 percent). The average entering class
has an SAT score of 1,306 and a GPA of 3.8. In addition,
90 percent of the students have held leadership positions
in their school or community, nearly 50 percent have
created or co-created a new organization in school or
the community and 88 percent have been involved in school
or community service.
The Program graduated its first class of 20 students
last May. Four of the graduates are now employed in
Spokane-area companies – Next IT, GenPrime, Desautel
Hege Communications and S.L. Start.
The Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, founded
in 2000, is a four-year undergraduate concentration
founded on the Jesuit educational philosophy of educating
the whole person. Its purpose is to prepare students
to create new ventures that make a positive difference
in society. The student-centered Program is designed
for promising individuals who demonstrate academic excellence,
leadership, creativity, and a commitment to serve others.
The Hogan Program embraces students from all academic
majors, tailoring the entrepreneurial curriculum and
co-curriculum to complement the students’ major
fields of study, and providing them with the concepts,
tools, and experiences to responsibly create successful
new commercial and social enterprises.
For more information, contact Professor Paul Buller,
director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program,
at (509) 323-3438 or via E-mail at buller@jepson.gonzaga.edu.
For more information about the Program, visit http://www.gonzagaentrepreneur.com
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