Changes

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been making many entrepenurial strides in recent years.One such stride was the creation of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship. The center was started a few years ago after the donation from the Berthiaume family, Isenberg alumni. Currently the center has been doing a great job bringing entrepreneurship to the campus through events, courses, and guidance. While there gowth is wonderful there are some definite roadblocks in the way of their expansion. Berthiaume is currently housed within Isenberg, the Business School, making it difficult to market it to other colleges. Isenberg is an amazing business school and continues to climb the ranks, but entrepreneurship is a multidisciplinary endeavor and should be more central in the ecosystem. Their location also affects their ability to raise funds from other colleges because non-business alumni are unlikely to donate towards the business school. This could be changed with an expansion of the Berthiaume Center and will likely hopefully come in time. This can't come any sooner because the center will soon outgrow its limits within its small space within Isenberg.