Move means the forum will no longer be a part of MIT Alumni Association
DALLAS (April 11, 2011) – In a surprise announcement to the Dallas chapter, local president Nick Lawrence told members “the MIT Enterprise Forum … will no longer be a division of the alumni association.” Word came Saturday to local members in a closed door meeting at a restaurant in Richardson, Texas, and the news was embargoed until today when the formal announcement will be made in Cambridge, Massecheutts, by Antoinette Matthews, director of the Forum’s global office.
Lawrence quoted Matthews as exclaiming privately to him “this really puts the Enterprise Forum into the bigtime. The MIT Enterprise Forum will become the leading volunteer entrepreneurial organization in the world, period!”
The enterprise forum was originally established in 1978 by the MIT Alumni Association as a way to help graduates with emerging technologies get funded commercially. But for some time the Forum has been open to both graduates and non-graduates of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), so this seemed to explain the move as a logical step to broaden activities. “I think this is going to be a tremendous launching pad for growth, for activity, for prestige, for all the good things that we need,” Lawrence told his members.
Technology Review, the world's oldest technology magazine, established in 1899, is an independent media company owned by MIT, claiming that more than two million people around the globe read it in five languages and on a variety of digital and print platforms. “It is considered to be the most credible on technology reporting in the world,” said Lawrence.
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