Robin D. Anderson
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Dr. Robin D. Anderson is the Robert W. Franz
Chair in Entrepreneurship and the executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship
at the University of Portland (1998-present). As the Franz Chair, he has developed
the entrepreneur core in the business school courses, designed and taught the
first entrepreneurship course offered at the university for non-business majors
and initiated a cutting-edge three-course intensive study program for entrepreneurial
students across campus, called Entrepreneur Scholars (E-Scholars). The E-Scholars
Program won the 2001 Model Award for Specialty Entrepreneurship Programs from
USASBE. Anderson is currently senior vice president, operations, for the United
States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).