UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

In the spring of 2009, Dr. Dianne Welsh took the lead in writing a proposal that created a campus-wide entrepreneurship center focusing primarily on community outreach and extra-curricular activities, and she named it the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center (NCEC). Dr. Welsh was assisted in the proposal to the UNCG Board of Trustees by Drs. Johnston, Weeks and Wander. Despite the BELL Executive Committee misgivings that the Board of Trustees would agree to name the UNCG Entrepreneurship Center the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center, Dr. Welsh pressed on. Her research showed that no other center had claimed the name in the state. The UNCG Board of Trustees passed the proposal in April 2009 and opened in September 2009 on the fourth floor of the Bryan School of Business in a suite next to the dean's office. Dr. Dianne Welsh served as the Founding and Inaugural Director from July 1, 2009-July 1, 2011. Dr. Welsh continued with the strategic plan she had written to replace herself as..

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Primary location: Greensboro United States