Evan Vitale Consulting: PUC students offering consulting to small businesses

Thursday, August 13, 2015

PUC students offering consulting to small businesses – Chicago Tribune

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By Wes Lukoshus Post-Tribune

Hey, small business employers! How would you like to receive free consulting services this fall from motivated, prospective business experts?

As a course requirement, Purdue University Calumet business students are seeking clients with whom to consult.

As part of the university’s experiential learning initiative, groups of three to five senior students enrolled in the “Small Business Consulting” course will join faculty members and business owner advisers to form consulting teams that serve individual client companies.

Each consulting team will interact throughout the upcoming fall semester with its client to learn, understand and address key issues, problems and other challenges the client is facing.

Climaxing the semester-long experience, each consulting team will produce and present a formal report that offers strategies and recommendations.

The consulting is offered at no charge.

Openings remain for small business employers to participate this fall, beginning late this month through early December. More information is available by contacting Purdue Calumet Small Business Institute Director and Professor of Entrepreneurship Jamaluddin Husain at jhhusain@purduecal.edu or by phoning him at 773-531-4000.

Qualified clients must be located within reasonable driving distance of Purdue Calumet’s Hammond campus and have operated as an employer of full-time employees at a physical location for at least two to three years. Client owners also must commit to working openly and diligently with their consulting team.

“The quality and usefulness of the final consulting findings and recommendations depend largely on the cooperation, involvement and support of the client business owners,” Husain said. “For business clients to benefit from our service, it is extremely important that they willingly share information with our consulting teams.”

The experience benefits students by allowing them to apply classroom and textbook knowledge in a real world environment, the objective of Purdue Calumet’s experiential learning initiative. Experiential learning is a graduation requirement of all baccalaureate degree-seeking Purdue Calumet students. More than 100 small businesses have used this consulting service.

Fall semester begins Aug. 24

It is 10 days before the start of the 2015-16 academic year at Purdue Calumet. Are you and/or your loved ones good to go for the start of fall semester classes?

If not, for undergraduate student information, contact the university’s Office of Enrollment Services on line at http://ift.tt/1P9tAea or phone 219-989-2213. For graduate study information, contact the Office of Graduate Studies at http://ift.tt/1JVP7aE or phone 219-989-2257.

Wes Lukoshus is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications at Purdue University Calumet. He can be contacted at lukoshus@purduecal.edu or 219-989-2217.

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