Support Entrepreneurial Invention & Multigenerational Hope

Together with Hap Klopp (founder of the North Face and Hult Professor), Carlos Baradello (Managing Director of Sausalito Ventures and Hult Professor), local partners at cFire, Dominican faculty in all three colleges, University leadership, the Center will facilitate the prototyping of innovative educational environments at Dominican, as well as research related to innovative pedagogy and business models in higher education. Dominican was founded as a teaching college. Help us build it by making a financial contribution or a donation of your time and expertise.  

Every year, the Lepage Center enables Dominican students to learn about global innovation and entrepreneurship first-hand by facilitating 10-day, fact-finding trips to countries around the world. In 2023, 10 students visited South Korea with the Director of the Lepage Center and Dr. Sarah Lee, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management. The trip included visits to innovation centers at leading universities, startups and established KOSPI-listed companies, as well as cultural K-POP performances and historic sites. Many students reported that the experience was “transformational.” A similar trip is planned for the summer of 2024. Sponsor a student and know that your contribution is making a real difference, that it enables "transformational" experiences. 

​The Lepage Center is a hub for global research on innovation and a fount of innovative research. The Research Exchange at the Lepage Center supports BSB and Dominican Faculty, and graduate students, as well as local and international partners conducting research by providing assistance with research design and methods, copyediting and proofreading, as well as article and monograph placement. In early 2024, the Center began coordinating a first-of-its-kind, tri-continent research collaborative with roughly 60 researchers from Dominican University of California, the University of Juba (South Sudan), and Solbridge International School of Business (South Korea). The Center is quickly becoming the leading resource for data on innovation and a global thought-leader on innovation. Sponsor research at the Lepage Center and support innovative thinking about global innovation. 

Dominican University of California is a majority-minority institution. In 2020, nearly 70% of students in 2020 identified with ethnicities other than white. Nearly a quarter of Dominican’s students are the first in their family to attend college. Dominican has recently qualified as both a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI), with more than 25% of undergraduate students identifying as Latinx and more than 25% identifying as Asian American or Pacific Islander. The Director of the Lepage Center, in close collaboration with the Dean of the BSB, members of the Lepage Center Board of Advisors, and the Dominican Faculty, as well as local and international partners, is working to develop The Exchange, a business incubator that enables Dominican students, faculty, staff, and alumni to foster hope and build equity in the affluent communities of Northern California as integral members of these communities for generations to come. Contribute to the Exchange and foster multigenerational hope.