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Student businesses flourish on campus
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Student businesses flourish on campus

Sophomore Eva Bessette designs a unique sweatshirt for each customer. Courtesy | Eva Bessette When the spring semester ends and students must find a home for their amassed clutter, it isn’t the students who stress about finding a storage unit – it’s their moms. That’s what Junior Nathan Rastovac realized the spring of his freshman...

Entrepreneurship club back in action
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Entrepreneurship club back in action

After losing traction for a year or two, the officers of Hillsdale College’s Enactus club are kicking off the new school year with rebranding and a greater emphasis on the group’s connection to the campus and community. A coalition of thousands of students around the globe, Enactus invests in the campus — who identify and...

Don Tocco during a speech at Spring Arbor University (youtube.com)
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Tocco to speak on Monday

Entrepreneur Don Tocco will give his 16th annual presentation titled “Art of the Journey” at 7 p.m. on Monday in the Searle Center in which he will unveil his “Art for Scholarship” fundraising concept. “We will be reaching out to all alumni from Hillsdale College with the ‘Art for Scholarship’ idea,” Tocco said. “I believe...

Hillsdale student wins entrepreneurial competition
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Hillsdale student wins entrepreneurial competition

The role of an entrepreneur is innovation through creativity. Through its Independent Innovators Network scholarship competition, The Michigan Colleges Alliance encourages students to develop a business of social entrepreneurship concept. Hillsdale freshman Sam Swayze won the most recent round of the competition earlier this month, receiving more votes than any of the other 24 submissions...