A Message from Dean Sulin Ba Dear Driehaus alumni, supporters, and community members: Welcome to the fall 2024 issue of Business Exchange. Read on to learn about how our faculty are advancing knowledge, how our students are building careers, and perhaps most importantly, how our alumni are forging change in their fields. The latest from…
Category: Notes from the Dean
Message from the Dean
Driehaus entrepreneurship program ranked #10 in the nation; curricular innovations honored; and more good news from the Loop. As the fall quarter draws to a close, we have much to celebrate here at DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business. Two of our very own initiatives, the Driehaus Cup pitch competition and the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, received…
New Initiatives and Collaborations Support Student Success
Next month I will have the honor of presenting diplomas to our Class of 2023 business graduates, the culmination of a whirlwind academic year in which our college community made great progress in addressing what must be done to advance the DePaul mission. We started the year by setting three primary college objectives: strengthen our…
Collaborations that Empower Student Success
I arrived in Chicago in late June after a 15-hour drive from the East Coast with one of my sons. As we approached the city on I-90, the Chicago skyline came into view, and I became quite emotional. I had been anticipating this moment since my appointment as dean was announced in January, and now…
Business Education Reimagined
This July the Driehaus College of Business will welcome Sulin Ba, the Treibick Family Endowed Chair in information technology at the University of Connecticut, as our new dean. Professor Ba and I are working closely on a leadership transition that supports the continuing success of our college, and she looks forward to joining DePaul, connecting…
Flexibility Is Our New Norm
This fall, we welcomed our business students back to DePaul with a course schedule that offered a range of in-person, remote and hybrid classes. Flexibility has become the new norm for how we deliver business education, shaped by the diverse needs of our students and the novel ways we have learned to teach and support…
Planning Our Post-Pandemic Future
As more people receive COVID-19 vaccines and optimism grows this spring, we are making plans for the post-pandemic future at the Driehaus College of Business. It will not be a return to business as usual. Student expectations and our assumptions about how to learn, teach and work have changed in the 14 months since DePaul…
Making This a Year We Can be Proud of
This academic year has begun unlike any we have experienced before at DePaul. Keeping our community safe—our first priority—compelled the university to substantially limit face-to-face classes, on-campus activities and residence hall living for students this fall and winter. All of our business courses are online, delivered in modalities that blend synchronous and asynchronous learning. Our…
Leadership in Changing Times
This spring brings change to our business college, both unexpected and planned. As we were finishing this issue of Business Exchange, COVID-19 became a pandemic that compelled DePaul to move all spring quarter courses online and all student services to remote delivery for everyone’s safety. I am proud of how quickly our teleworking business faculty…
Creating Value by Being Entrepreneurial
The Driehaus College of Business has always been entrepreneurial, in both what it teaches and how it approaches business education. Our college is recognized among the nation’s best for entrepreneurship study by the Princeton Review, which ranks both our undergraduate and graduate programs in the top 25. We earn these rankings because our faculty teaches…
