Over the past year, University of Detroit Mercy’s Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) has been serving its core function while expanding in new directions. Joining Director Derrin Leppek this year as assistant director of the CSE is Olga Alavanou, ’98, former executive vice president of Yazaki North and Central …
Among those inducted into the College of Business Administration’s Hall of Honor recently and also receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award was Lenora Hardy-Foster, ’88, ’96 president of the 95-year-old Judson Center, which provides compassionate, comprehensive services to children and families throughout southeast Michigan. Hardy-Foster earned an associate’s degree in business …
Even if you can’t read them while tooling down the expressway, chances are you’ve seen the billboards around metro Detroit touting the passage rate of Detroit Mercy Accounting grads on the Certified Public Accounting exam. The billboards read “Our Accounting grads beat Harvard on the CPA exam!” Other billboards list additional …
A generous gift from the wife of a late alumnus means scholarships for students in the College of Business Administration in perpetuity. Robert Bruce Jones ’47, ’52, passed away in 2015 at the age of 93. A firm believer in the importance of education, Jones attended University of Detroit after …
Each year, University of Detroit Mercy honors an alumnus from each College or School as people who exemplify the Jesuit and Mercy traditions of the University. The 2019 class of the Spirit of University of Detroit Mercy Alumni Achievement Awards has just been selected and they are a diverse group …
Crystal Windham ’02, who is the director of Cadillac’s interior design team, is one of a small but growing number of women in high places in the field of automotive design. She was part of a New York Times article last week called “Women Get Feet in the Door of …
The New York Times Business section has a feature called Vocations in which, according to the paper, “people from all walks of life talk about their jobs.” Last week, one of those people was Jay Browder ’05 who operates a machine at Alphapointe in Kansas City, Mo. Alphapointe is a …
Still deciding whether to come to Homecoming this weekend? We’re giving you the hard sell now — personal requests from some of your favorite professors. Over the last few weeks we’ve rolled these videos out and they were pretty popular. We collected them here so you can watch them all …
A new twist on a longtime business course has added a unique dimension designed to deepen and expand the experience of studying the business climate in another country first-hand. The International Business Study Abroad program offered through the College of Business Administration has been offered for nearly two decades, which …
A recent study placed Detroit Mercy’s dean of the College of Business Administration, Joseph G. Eisenhauer, Ph.D., among the world’s top scholars in the field of risk and insurance. The study, titled “The Journal of Risk and Insurance: Authors of Influence” appeared in Risk Management and Insurance Review. Authors S.W. Pottier, …
