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Tech. Institute Has UCSB Precedent

The CEEM itself does not offer any for-credit courses or award any degrees.

Praising the Program

Student entrepreneurs at Harvard expressed excitement about the proposed new institute here.

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And students at UCSB said their similar institute has indeed been a valuable entrepreneurial education.

"Before I really got involved in this, the process of starting up a company seemed rather mysterious," says Kevin M. Gee, president of ETV and a second year engineering graduate student at UCSB.

Gee says that the program has now given him enough tools and knowledge to start his own business. He also says that the lessons he has learned through CEEM are not skills that can be learned through a textbook.

"Now that [CEEM] is here, its added quite a bit," Apple says. "It gives you enough information and driving force to go out there."

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