Students in James Valentine’s “Exploring and Sharing Financial Literacy” course aren’t just learning the fundamentals of financial literacy, they’re teaching it to community-based organizations in Chicago who want to share these skills with their communities. A visit to one of Valentine’s fall class sessions revealed students and community leaders gathered in groups around the classroom,…
Donald M. Ephraim (BUS ’52) Supports and Inspires Student Achievement
Donald M. Ephraim’s path to becoming a successful agent for on-air talent began with a humble job as a stock boy at a grocery store near his home on the South Side of Chicago. He used the money he earned to enroll in DePaul, becoming the first in his family to graduate college. “My sister…
What Census Data Means for DePaul Economists, Housing Researchers and Students
This year the U.S. Census Bureau began the monumental effort of counting the population of the country, starting in January with a remote village in Alaska. This undertaking takes place every 10 years, but the Bureau is active every year, collecting an enormous body of data via monthly surveys to get an ongoing pulse on…
Student Internships Open Doors to Alumni Career Success
Emily Greenbaum (BUS ’16) lives in Chicago, but her career over the last four years has taken her to places where she never thought she’d have the opportunity to work. During one busy season, she traveled from Lisbon, Portugal, to Louisville, Kentucky, to Orange County, California, within a span of just three months. An…
DePaul and Ephraim Award Help Launch Alumna’s Tax Career
Donald Ephaim (BUS ’52) established the Donald M. Ephraim Family Endowed Excellence Awards to provide monetary prizes that encourage DePaul business students to achieve. “The awardees with whom I’ve spoken are terrific students who really apply themselves and have great futures,” he says. Those awardees include Catherine Conrad (BUS ’19), who received assistance from the…
Driehaus College of Business Celebrates Women’s History Month
Twelve DePaul business leaders — faculty, staff, students and alumni — explain why they are a “woman in business” in short video. For more than 100 years, women have been studying in DePaul’s business school. Since then, the Driehaus College of Business has welcomed its first woman dean, opened the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute, and…
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Alex Devience
Professor Emeritus Alex Devience, a management faculty member at DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business for 45 years, died on June 13. An extraordinarily dedicated teacher and mentor, Devience inspired generations of business students and generously guided colleagues. An attorney as well as a professor, Devience taught business law and other subjects at DePaul, and he…
In Memoriam: Robert O’Keefe
Professor Emeritus Robert O’Keefe, a marketing faculty member for 40 years, passed away at age 84 on Feb. 11, 2020. O’Keefe taught principles of marketing and other marketing courses to generations of business students during his four decades at DePaul. He served as an associate dean and director of DePaul’s graduate business school, where he…
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…
College Honors Faculty and Staff Retirees
The Driehaus College of Business held a reception in the spring to honor 14 long-serving professors and two staff members who retired from DePaul June 30, 2019. Retirees celebrated at the event were Associate Professor John Ahern, Ezerski Chair Mark Frigo, Assistant Professor Mark McCarthy, EY Distinguished Professor Bel Needles and Associate Professor David J….
