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Executive Education Website Up and Running
The School of Business Executive Education website is now available for our off-campus Integrated MBA and Professional MBA programs. Click here to visit the site.

Joe Patton New Venture Business Plan Competition
The School of Business is pleased by the opportunity to honor entrepreneur Joe Patton through the Joe Patton New Venture Business Plan Competition.

Designed to recognize Joseph Patton’s life as a businessman, entrepreneur and community servant, Competition—sponsored by Joe Patton Trust and Jan White—is intended for La Sierra University students interested in starting their own businesses. Each plan will be judged based on its creativity, on its organization, on its detail, and on its possession of other characteristics likely to make it attractive to potential funding sources. One (1) seed grant in the amount of $5,000 will be awarded every year to the best business plan submitted.

ELIGIBILITY:

1.    Each person submitting a business plan must be a full-time La Sierra University student who has completed a minimum of 90 quarter-hour credits, or must have graduated no more than three months prior to the date the Award is presented.
2.    A plan must be submitted by a single student.
3.    Each applicant must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.0.
4.    Each applicant must be (or in the case of a graduate applicant, have been) a member in good standing of the L.S.U. S.I.F.E. program.
5.    Each applicant must currently be involved in some form of community service.
6.    A submitted business plan must be for a start-up business only—not for an existing business.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:   May 15, 2009 at  5:00 p.m.

Please contact Gary Chartier for details.