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Proposal To Turn UConn Into 'Entrepreneurship University' Stirs Controversy Proposal To Turn UConn Into 'Entrepreneurship University' Stirs Controversy
Proposal To Turn UConn Into 'Entrepreneurship University' Stirs Controversy A state legislative committee is set to vote on a bill Thursday, April 5 that its proponents think may foster a culture of entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut, but UConn’s leaders -- including its president -- believe that as written it could undermine the university. “One worried senior faculty leader called this bill an attempt to make us into Entrepreneurship University,” UConn President Susan Herbst told the legislature's Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee this week. “He is right that this would have a dramatic effect on UConn." Herbst was appointed as the 15th Pr…

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