DEI Articles

Alumni Empower Women Through Soccer Nonprofit

Quick, make a list of everything you need to start playing soccer. A ball, for starters. A goal to kick it into. Maybe a pair of cleats. And if you’re playing on a team, jerseys could be helpful. But University of Denver alumna Sarah Dwyer-Shick (MSM 2000) realized...

The Road to Success

The benefits of higher education are well documented. College graduates are more likely than those with only a high school diploma to live longer, healthier lives; experience less unemployment; and earn higher salaries. This is true for nearly every demographic, but...

Longtime Partnership Promotes Diversity in Real Estate

Longtime Partnership Promotes Diversity in Real Estate

Identifying a lack of diversity in the real estate industry is one thing. Doing something about it is entirely different, Barbara Jackson realized, as grad student Michele Tonti (MS 2015) sat in her office at the Daniels College of Business. Jackson, director of...

University of Denver Recognized for Services to Veterans

University of Denver Recognized for Services to Veterans

For the first time this century, Military Times has recognized the University of Denver for its services to veterans on campus. According to the publication, DU qualifies as one of the “Best for Vets” by providing military-affiliated students with the resources they...

Addressing Gaps in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Addressing Gaps in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The City and County of Denver’s Technology Services (TS) agency has a new, robust Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) action plan thanks to the assistance of a Denver MBA student team at the Daniels College of Business. As part of the Denver MBA program’s Social...

Alumni Build Music Education into Underfunded Schools

Alumni Build Music Education into Underfunded Schools

The keys of the piano plunked Mallory Bernstein from White Plains, New York, to Fairbanks, Alaska, to Denver, Colorado. Performing was her passion, and she traveled the country polishing her repertoire, picking up academic degrees as she went. In Denver, however,...

Daniels Alum Helps Make Soccer Accessible for Aurora Kids

Daniels Alum Helps Make Soccer Accessible for Aurora Kids

If writer and self-described sage Malcolm Gladwell is right, 10,000 hours of practice will make you a world-class soccer player. If James Davies is right, kids in the United States are getting nowhere close to that number. “Their parents spend a lot of money,” Davies...

DU: The Rally-Point for Military and Veteran Students

DU: The Rally-Point for Military and Veteran Students

Kevin Rossi is a graduate of the master of science in applied quantitative finance program at the Daniels College of Business. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 2000 to 2009. Rossi shares why he chose to return to seek a graduate degree in finance and what lessons...

The Priority of Board Diversity

The Priority of Board Diversity

Executive Education at the Daniels College of Business has announced it will resume its Board Leadership Program with Prospanica, the association for Hispanic MBAs and business professionals, this coming September. The Prospanica Board Leadership Development Program...