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(Left to right) BizX students Skyler Rogers of Kenton; Stephanie Kuharik of St. George, Ontario; Andrew Umbel of Brook Park, and Hannah Simon of Westlake meet in one of the three group work spaces that are part of the new David J. Joseph Co. Business Hub in the Business Administration Building.

It didn’t take long for Stephanie Kuharik, a freshman with an interest in event planning, to be paired with a mentor who’s “arguably the premier event planner in Washington, D.C.”

That assessment of Bowling Green graduate David Hainline is by Dr. Brent Nicholson, director of BizX, the new program that brought Hainline and Kuharik together.

BizX is a BGSU College of Business Administration initiative to foster entrepreneurial thinking and leadership in students. The program is working to develop the talents of its first 27 freshman enrollees through a combination of the classroom, co-curricular activities and mentorship.

Each of the students has been assigned a mentor, most of whom are Bowling Green alumni, noted Nicholson, who is also associate dean of undergraduate programs in the business college. “They’ve all got that link to someone who’s out in the business world’’ and will communicate with the students throughout their college careers, he added.

Dr. Rodney Rogers, dean of business administration, and Kristen Krebs, assistant to the dean for special projects, solicited prospective mentors for the program. An effort was then made to partner students with mentors “where we could find somebody who could match the interest of the student,” said Nicholson, citing the pairing of Hainline and Kuharik.
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