Huizenga Business School Young Entrepreneurs Council Creates $25,000 Scholarship Fund

FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – The H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business

Photo showing from left to right: Ruchel Louis, YEC Chair; Michael Fields, Ph.D., Huizenga Business School Dean; Scott Roberts and Yolanda Harris, YEC members.

and Entrepreneurship and the Young Entrepreneurs Council (YEC) announced the establishment of the Young Entrepreneurs Council Scholarship to help budding entrepreneurs. Ruchel Louis, chair of the YEC confirmed the approval of $25,000.00 to create the scholarship fund, which was voted on at the group’s November, 2010 quarterly meeting.

The scholarship is open to undergraduate students who demonstrate leadership and who want to become entrepreneurs. It will be awarded over the next five years with one student receiving $5,000 each year. Students may only receive the scholarship once. The recipient of the scholarship will be required to serve as the Student Leader of the YEC mentorship group.

The goal of the scholarship is to assist students financially, create an environment to enhance academic learning and provide mentorship to entrepreneurs in the making.

The YEC was founded in 2002, established by the Huizenga Business School Board of Governors to create ties to our business community of young entrepreneurs and professionals.  The YEC currently consists of 35 members representing a range of industries. Members are founders of companies or senior level corporate executives.

To view scholarship details, visit the Huizenga Business School scholarships website at: http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/CurrentStudents/scholarships.cfm

For more information on the Huizenga Business School, visit: www.nova.edu/business or www.nsusales.com

About the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship: Serving more than 6,000 students, the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs in areas such as accounting, finance, human resource management, public administration, sales and more. The Huizenga Business School also boasts the largest Master of Business Administration MBA sales program in Florida as well as sales certificate. The school is housed in the five-story state-of-the-art Carl DeSantis Building on Nova Southeastern University’s main campus in Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida, but programs are available at multiple locations and online. For more information, visit http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/.

About Nova Southeastern University: Situated on 300 beautiful acres in Davie, Florida, Nova Southeastern University is a dynamic fully accredited institution dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs of distinction from preschool through the professional and doctoral levels. NSU has more than 29,000 students and is the seventh largest not-for-profit independent institution nationally. The university awards associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, doctoral, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields, including business, counseling, computer and information sciences, education, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, dentistry, various health professions, law, marine sciences, early childhood, psychology and other social sciences.  Classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NSU was also awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification for the university’s significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement.  NSU is one of only 37 universities nationwide to have earned both of these Carnegie recognitions.  For more information about NSU visit www.nova.edu.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 3, 2011

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