Dr. Calvin Kent - Dr. Kent is Marshall’s Vice President for Business and Economic Research and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research.  He also holds the Lewis Distinguished Chair in Business at the LCOB.
Dr. Kent has extensive experience in promoting market capitalism.

• He was one of the founders of The Association for Private Enterprise Education (APEE), which is now the largest professional organization in the United States dedicated solely to promoting an understanding of private enterprise.  He was the Association’s executive secretary/treasurer for ten years. APEE’s distinguish service award is named after him.
• While at Baylor University, he founded the Center for Private Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and the National Center for Entrepreneurship in Economics Education.  He produced both scholarly works and curriculum for students in elementary and secondary schools.  The National Council on Economic Education presented him its highest award the John C. Shram Distinguished Service Citation.
• For his work in promoting education regarding market capitalism, he has received other awards:
• Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Levy Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Sargent Americanism Award
• Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, Piper Professor Designation.
• He has authored or edited four major books including:
• The Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship and the Privatization of Government
• The Environment for Entrepreneurship
• An Economy at Risk
• Dr. Kent has lectured in 14 countries and over 50 American universities on entrepreneurship and market capitalism
• During the first President Bush’s administration he was an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy and Administrator of the Energy Information Administration.
• Prior to assuming his current duties, he was Dean of the Lewis College of Business and continues to teach.

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