From coffee shot to campus cornerstone

From coffee shot to campus cornerstone

When Lori Driessnack closed the doors of her beloved Mt. Pleasant coffee shop, University Cup, she wasn’t stepping away from students—she was stepping toward them. “I realized that what I was doing every day with my baristas—supporting, encouraging, guiding them through college—wasn’t all that different from student success coaching,” Driessnack said. After years of informally mentoring CMU student employees, Driessnack made it official—first as…