$1.25M Gift Underwrites

Entrepreneurship Center

Hartwick College Announces Alumni’s Donation

ONEONTA – Hartwick College today announced a $1.25 million gift pledge from Tim Herbert and Sally Griffiths Herbert, Class of ’88, to support a new Center for Collaboration & Innovation.

The center, to be named the Griffiths Center for Collaboration & Innovation in honor of the donors, will include a Makerspace, E-Hub (for entrepreneurship hub) and fabrication lab.

The gift will enable Hartwick to begin recruitment of a director of innovation, who will oversee the center’s development.

The goal is for “our students to practice the open, innovative thinking, problem solving and creativity skills they will need to be employed successfully in tomorrow’s workplace,” said Hartwick President Margaret L. Drugovich. “Sally and Tim are certainly generous, but they are also visionaries.”

Makerspace, to be located on the fourth floor of the Stevens-German Library, is “an open-format collaborative workspace” for students, faculty and guests to work together to “brainstorm, create, learn and develop ideas.”

The E-Hub will aim to turn those ideas into entrepreneurial projects, with the help of faculty and start-up business owners.

The Herberts also contributed to the 2014 Campaign for Hartwick Student, supporting the development of Moyer Pool and related facilities into the Sally Griffiths Herbert ’88 Aquatic Center.