"It's a little frightening to think that a 17- or 18-year-old should be committed to a career path and somehow forgo that two-year exploration, " Andrea Hershatter, director of the undergraduate program at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, told Business Week.

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It was part of the LSE undergraduate program in that decade for example.

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Yvette Ramirez is a senior at Harvard studying Namibian and South African education and completing her coursework and practicum for the Undergraduate Teaching Education Program.

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Grand Forks, for example, is home to the University of North Dakota, which has a Center for Innovation-ranked eighth best undergraduate program in the country.

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Lovell expects the program will provide undergraduate, masters and Ph.

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Representing the university administration at the meeting was Melanie Boyd, director of undergraduate studies in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and special adviser to the dean of Yale College and the student-run Women's Center.

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From the time Wambugu entered the University of Nairobi's plant pathology program as an undergraduate in 1975 until she earned her Ph.

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In this program, which is for both graduate and undergraduate students, however, the emphasis is less on social entrepreneurship than on the investing part.

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"Business is supposed to be a service to society, " says Andrew Abela, chair of the business and economics program, now housed in Catholic's School of Arts and Sciences and comprised mostly of undergraduate students.

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