Professor reacts to recent article 

I am extremely troubled by the headline and sub-headline, which were apparently written to sensationalize your November 21 Daily Forty-Niner status of our Center for Entrepreneurship.

As a matter of fact, Cal State Long Beach is NOT 20 years behind. The curricula IS up-to-date.

I joined the College of Business, in the summer of 1999, to continue and finalize their plans for establishing a Center for Entrepreneurship. This I have done.

I have also helped to highlight those parts of the business school curriculum dealing with the inter-disciplinary aspects of Entrepreneurship.

As a result we now offer four separate courses that identify the processes of Entrepreneurship to our students.

A well established fact is that we can not teach someone to be an entrepreneur, but we can provide the student the management tools that should be used to help assure a successful new venture start-up or in creating a new business entity within an established corporation.

– Dr. Alan Grant
Adjunct Professor, Interim Director CSULB Center for Entrepreneurship College of Business