US Northeast

Pace University

For over 100 years, Pace University's motto has been Opportunitas and we believe that nothing is more synonymous with opportunity than entrepreneurship. In keeping with that tradition, the University offers talented and ambitious students the opportunity to discover their potential and realize their dreams. Developing the entrepreneurship program at Pace is truly aligned with the University’s motto and puts the Lubin School of Business is in an even better position to empower its students and attract a new pool of talented and ambitious individuals.

Pace was founded by two entrepreneurial brothers one hundred years ago. In 1906, Homer and Charles Pace borrowed $600 to rent a classroom in lower Manhattan to teach ten men and three women the principles of business. Pace’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program was formally established in 1979 and the Small Business Development Center at Pace was established in 1986.

Pace has grown into one of the largest universities in New York State, with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, enrolling some 14,000 students and more than 120,000 alumni. The dramatic growth of the institution from its entrepreneurial years to its current status as one of the larger, comprehensive independent institutions of higher learning has been chronicled as one of the more innovative and entrepreneurial educational development efforts in the United States. Peter Drucker, in his Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985), cited Pace University among the nation’s “entrepreneurial universities” (pp. 93-94) steeped in entrepreneurial instinct and focused on seizing opportunities for educational excellence in a manner reflective of societal and market needs.

Contact: Bruce Bachenheimer, Clinical Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship@Lubin

E-mail: bbachenheimer@pace.edu, Tel: (212) 618-6580, Web: www.pace.edu/entrepreneurship