Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI)

In 2003, UNC-Chapel Hill was one of 8 universities nationwide selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to receive a multimillion-dollar grant supporting campus-wide entrepreneurship education – the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI). The CEI focuses upon traditional business entrepreneurship, as well as social, civic and academic entrepreneurial endeavors. Its objective is to make entrepreneurship part of the weave and fabric of the UNC experience.

UNC is building a permanent foundation of faculty expertise, exciting educational opportunities for students and productive engagement with the wider entrepreneurial community. The grant is viewed as an opportunity to make entrepreneurship a life-changing experience for a wide array of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, and will complement the BSBA and MBA entrepreneurial program at UNC Kenan-Flagler.