The Halperin Emerging Company Fund has been founded to give DePaul the capital to make equity investments in startups founded by DePaul students and alumni as well as community members. Overseen by the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, the fund will focus on investing in ventures that show potential for growth and job creation. The initiative was…
Blending Business and Mission: Alumna Nicole R. Robinson, CEO of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago
“I was a kid of the four P’s: public school, public libraries, public parks and public safety net programs,” says Nicole R. Robinson (BUS ’92, MBA ’00), a proud Chicago South Sider and the CEO of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago. From the time that she was a teenager, Robinson had an unflinching curiosity. She…
Olivia Perez: Greenwood Project and DePaul opened “a whole new world for me”
DePaul business major Olivia Perez only started college in September, but she already has a solid base of knowledge about the finance industry, thanks to her participation in summer finance programs hosted by the nonprofit Greenwood Project and DePaul. Two summers ago, a guidance counselor at her high school, De La Salle Institute on the…
Seerat Kaler (BUS ’21): Paying it Forward to Empower Women in Finance
Seerat Kaler (BUS ’21) is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States from Punjab, an agricultural region in India, seeking to raise their children in a place that they believed would offer more opportunities for success. For Kaler, those opportunities came to fruition at the Driehaus College of Business, where she found…
Expanding the Pipeline of Diverse Business Talent
DePaul collaborates with businesses, non-profits and alumni to empower the career ambitions of underrepresented students While corporate America has made modest gains in diversifying its leadership, women and people of color remain underrepresented in the executive ranks of many industries. Women represent a mere 5% of C-suite leaders, according to the McKinsey-LeanIn.Org Women in…
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…
Scholarship Honors Legacy of Professor Sandra Shelton
Last fall the Driehaus College of Business lost one of its most influential faculty members. Sandra Shelton, an accountancy professor who mentored PhD candidates of color across the nation, died on Oct. 4. Shelton taught auditing and corporate governance at DePaul for 27 years, and as one of the founding members of the nonprofit PhD…
Revised Bachelor’s in Business Degree Curriculum Debuts This Fall
The Driehaus College of Business has reimagined its Bachelor of Science in Business (BSB) core curriculum with input from employers about the knowledge and skills they seek when recruiting graduates. Debuting this fall, the revised program begins with three new courses—Business Fundamentals and the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Business Analytics, and Business for Social Good. “By completing…
School of Accountancy & MIS Names New Director
Hui Lin, an associate professor and international program administrator, has been named the next director of the School of Accountancy & MIS. Lin will assume her new role July 1. A member of the school’s faculty since 2008, Lin led the college’s international degree and study abroad programs as director of the Driehaus Center for…
