PRESS RELEASES 2005

UTech Lecturer to Research Entrepreneurship in the United States

August 4, 2005

Ms. Mauvalyn Bowen, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Technology’s (UTech) Faculty of Business and Management, will leave Jamaica shortly to begin a Doctoral Program in Business and Industry Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.  Ms. Bowen is a 2005 scholarship recipient under the Fulbright-LASPAU Faculty Development Program administered by the U.S. Embassy in Kingston.

The emphasis of Ms. Bowen’s three-year research studies in Minnesota will be the role of entrepreneurship in social and economic development.  Ms. Bowen aims to empower her fellow Jamaicans at the grassroots level to achieve their goals, providing the tools for them to become socially and economically independent through entrepreneurship.  On her return to Jamaica, she hopes to set up an Entrepreneurship Unit in UTech’s School of Business that will allow students to major in the subject, while providing workshops and continuing education for Jamaican entrepreneurs.

Ms. Bowen obtained her Masters Degree in Workforce Education and Development from Southern Illinois University, and a Bachelors degree in Business Education from UTech.  She also holds Post Graduate Diplomas and Certificates in Management and Technology Commercialization from the University of the West Indies and the University of Calgary in Canada.  With a passion for service, especially in assisting young people to fulfill their potential in business, Ms. Bowen received the Dean’s Award for Most Outstanding Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Management in 2004, and UTech’s Vin Spencer Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life.

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