Minoring in entrepreneurship, majoring in success

Popular culture loves the mythology of the self-made success, the boot-strapping individual who eschews formal education to blaze a path to success. But, while superstar dropouts can capture our imaginations – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg – they are the exceptions, not the rule.

Beginning this fall 2016, undergraduate students in the Faculties of Arts, Engineering, Science, and the Schulich School of Music, can enroll in an 18-credit Minor in Entrepreneurship. The aim, says Steve Maguire, Director of the Desautels Faculty of Management’s Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management, which was mandated by the Provost to work with partner faculties to develop the new Minors, is “to facilitate a pan-McGill culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by providing a structure and incentives for faculties to create or expand upper-level courses in entrepreneurship that are customized to the needs of their students.”

Click here to read the full article: McGill Reporter, April 2, 2016