OSU professor Michael Morris receives the coveted Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education
Monday, January 24, 2011
Morris will be presented with the award and $7,500 at the Leavey Summit March 18-19 in Philadelphia, Pa. He earned the award based on the passion and innovativeness he demonstrated while forming and developing OSU’s School of Entrepreneurship, a department he continues to lead and cultivate.
“Winning this award is reinforcing in terms of what we’re trying to do here,” Morris said. “It suggests that the program here at OSU is emerging as a world-wide leader in entrepreneurship.”
Morris said the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation is well known for celebrating the leading programs and initiatives related to free enterprise and entrepreneurship from across the nation. Each year, the panel selects educators from the elementary, junior high, high school and college levels to receive this award.
This is not the first honor Morris has received for his extensive work in entrepreneurship. In addition to founding the revolutionary School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University, Morris has built acclaimed programs in entrepreneurship at Syracuse University and the Miami University, and been recognized as one of the top twenty entrepreneurship educators in the country. A former Fulbright Scholar, he has also written seven books and more than 150 academic articles in leading journals, earning numerous awards for his efforts.
“Oklahoma State is an entrepreneurial university that is transforming the lives of students and empowering them to change the world,” Morris said. “Our faculty and staff are academic entrepreneurs. Their success is tied to a dynamic curriculum, deep commitment to experiential learning, and high-impact community engagement.”
For more information about OSU’s School of Entrepreneurship, call Morris at 405-744-3325 or send an e-mail to entrepreneurship@okstate.edu.