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$3 Million Grant Makes Florida International University Happy Campus.

By D.E. Leger, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 16--Florida International University has won a $3 million grant -- the second largest in the school's 31-year history -- to improve entrepreneurial studies on campus.

Money from the prestigious Kauffman Foundation has been earmarked for the school's Global Entrepreneurship Center, which aim to enhance the entrepreneurial component of every discipline at the university.

"We want to make the Global Entrepreneurship Center a national center," FIU President Mitch Maidique sa

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