Diversity

This week marks Diversity Week at Michigan Ross, during which students will present 15 incredibly powerful and thoughtfully designed events that celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empowerment. We guarantee you won’t want to miss a single one!

My friends warned me that living in a small college town in a Midwestern state would be very different, and I’d at best be tokenized as one of a handful of LGBTQ individuals and at worst be in a community rife with latent homophobia. Thankfully, reflecting on my first year at Ross, I realize that couldn’t be further from the truth.

We are working with an inspirational and enthusiastic group of women to create a conference focused on empowering women during their MBA, through their internship, and beyond graduation into their careers.

Ross has many outreach programs designed to introduce and educate students on what it means to be a successful business student and professional

Students come from all over the country and the world to attend Michigan Ross, which makes it a pretty amazing place. This week, you’re invited take a moment to celebrate, learn, and connect with the Ross community during a special series of events. The Ross Student Government Association has...

It’s professional development week for Michigan Ross MBA students, which means packed travel schedules, meeting with recruiters, networking with potential employers, and meeting with more recruiters. One group of Ross students is hoping to make that all sound a little less stressful for their...

​ Oct. 11 is known as National Coming Out Day, an LGBTQ+ awareness day celebrated in the United States since the late 1980s, and for the past week, Out for Business, the LGBTQ student group at Michigan Ross has worked diligently hosting and coordinating various events in celebration of the day...

This fall, Michigan Ross welcomed its newest group of MBA students, and it’s the strongest class we’ve ever had. The incoming class has the highest average GMAT score of any class in Michigan Ross’ history. Another record high for Ross is the percentage of women in the new class: 43 percent. Strong...

I vividly remember the first day of orientation at Ross. It reminded me of the first day of middle school – everyone had on their best clothes, a fresh haircut and everyone was thinking the same thing: “I hope I fit in!” I was no different.

When Amber Blanks, BBA ‘16/MAcc ‘17, first entered Michigan Ross as a sophomore, she didn’t know much about business. Coming from a performing arts background, she wasn’t sure how well she could adjust to the hustle and bustle of business school. Then, she found out Michigan Ross had a program that...

It’s the summer before your first year of college. Your high school classes are finished, you’ve graduated, and you have no summer homework. You and your friends are free for the summer and instead of spending your days enjoying the sun, traveling and hanging out, you choose to...attend classes?

As a recent alum, Praveen Loganathan, BBA ‘17, is very familiar with Michigan Ross’ emphasis on using business to make a positive change in society. Instead of waiting until he graduated to do that, he and several other students began the work their junior year, launching the Change Agents...

When companies create goals for employee diversity and inclusion, the impact on the entire workforce in any given organization trying to meet them can be fraught, creating tensions and even resentments among employees that can run along racial and ethnic lines. That was the message of Intel’s Chief...

DTE Energy CEO Gerard Anderson, MBA ‘88, and Masco President and CEO Keith J. Allman, MBA ‘91, are two of the more than 170 corporate executives who joined C.E.O. Action for Diversity and Inclusion , an initiative designed for the business community to...

When BBA junior Emily Gorman received an email from her academic advisor about the Magnify program, she almost overlooked it — until she read the program had a one-week merger project with Detroit Public Schools. At that point...

Women are incredibly impactful leaders. Yet, there is still a lot of work left to do to open the doors of opportunity for women throughout the business world. A new episode of Business Beyond Usual , a podcast out today from Michigan Ross students, takes on this...

Michigan Ross is an amazing community of people from all backgrounds, where diversity is valued and celebrated. The Ross community recently came together to show...

In response to the White House’s recent executive order banning immigration from certain countries, the Michigan Ross community has come together with a message of unity. More than 200 students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Winter Garden this afternoon in solidarity with international...

A big part of the mission of Michigan Ross is to create graduates who make a positive difference in the world –– and one alum is doing just that at Google. A recent feature in Fortune magazine looked at the work of Michael Gardner, BBA ‘12, who is an account manager at Google. Last fall Gardner...

This morning, I had the honor of joining the campus community at one of our nation’s largest celebrations of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. At the event, we heard Amy Goodman, an award-winning journalist and host of the global radio show and podcast Democracy Now! talk about the...

By: The Michigan Ross Student Community Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a National Day of Service honoring the work and legacy of an American civil rights leader. MLK once said, "Life'...