Syracuse University announces a unique and new initiative called, "The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV).

The EBV program is designed as an intensive training program to offer experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to veterans with disabilities resulting from their service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Syracuse University Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship J. Michael Haynie, writes, "It is our position that these men and women have already earned the price of admission, and we have assumed the responsibility to raise the necessary funds to cover all costs associated with this initiative." As a result, the program is offered entirely without cost to participating veterans. The inaugural bootcamp will be offered during the 2007 summer with approximately 20 veteran enrollees.

The goal of EBV is to help develop the competencies of veterans in sustaining an entrepreneurial venture as they participate and thrive in the economic engine of their communities. Similar to any bootcamp, this program will be intense, rigorous, and challenging.

For more information about EBV, program eligibility and application procedures go to: http://whitman.syr.edu/eee/veterans or direction inquiries to ebvinfo@syr.edu.

The application deadline for the first bootcamp is June 5, 2007.