Minding Our Business, a community outreach project organized by the College of Business Administration at Rider University, will be able to expand its programming thanks to a handful of recent grants totaling $90,000.

In a week’s time, the Rider University volunteers were able to transform an open lot into a play area that includes swing sets, seesaws, a playhouse and tire tower, complete with shade.

Two undergraduate students recently captured half of the awards in the 2008 N.J. Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition, continuing a growing tradition of excellence in the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Small Business Institute at Rider Takes Three Awards from National Conference

Teaching entrepreneurial practices is their business, and business is good – the best, in fact. The “business,” in this case, is the Student Venture Experience (ENT 420), an elective course in Rider’s Entrepreneurial Studies program that won a Best Practice Award at the Small Business Institute National Conference in San Diego from February 14 to 16.