As usual, the new year brings faculty comings and goings University-wide, including three of note in the College of Business Administration.
In December 2018, after three decades of service at University of Detroit Mercy, Professor of Marketing Mary Higby retired.
Higby taught marketing management, marketing strategy, retailing and consumer behavior, as well as introductory business courses for freshmen and non-majors. She published articles in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing Management, the Management Review and the Quarterly Review of Business Disciplines. She received the President’s Award for Faculty Excellence in 1995. Prior to becoming a college professor, Higby worked in industry for a number of corporations, including Sears Roebuck & Company, and AT&T.
The College is also pleased to announce the hiring of two new faculty members who will join the University in the fall.
Abiodun Ige joins the University as an assistant professor of management. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Technology in Nigeria and an MBA from Penn State. He is currently completing a doctorate in Strategic Management from the University of Alberta in Calgary, Canada. His most recent publication is “The Evolving Institutional Works of the National Collegiate Athletics Association to Maintain Dominance in a Fragmented Field” in Sport Management Review.
Staci Kenno will join the College as an assistant professor of Accounting. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Windsor, as well as a master’s and a Ph.D. in Managerial Accounting from Queen’s University. She has been teaching Accounting at Brock University in Canada since 2013, and has published several articles in scholarly journals, including “Fostering and Forcing Uses of Accounting: Labor-Management Negotiations in the Automotive Crisis in Canada 2008-2009” in Management Accounting Research, “Revising the Budgeting Model: Challenges of Implementation at a University” in the Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and “Intersections of Service Learning in an Introductory Accounting Project” in the Accounting Instructors’ Report.
