Retiring Faculty Leave Their MARK Professors Mark DeRemer, John Kaliski, Paul Schumann and Roger Severns are moving on from the College of Business, but their legacies of mentorship, support and collegiality will live on.
CHAMPION OF STUDENT SUCCESS DR. MARK DEREMER
Assistant Professor of Accounting Retiring after five years in the College of Business Dr. Mark DeRemer arrived at the College of Business in 2016. The assistant professor of Accounting has been fiercely committed to student success and career development ever since. “Mark has been a very willing advisor to students, and I think he stresses to students what is at the end of the tunnel in terms of career opportunities,” says former accounting department chair Dr. Paul Brennan. “In general, our career advice tends to focus on public accounting. Mark understands this but Mark has been very active in promoting other career opportunities in industry and the alternative or supplementary CMA track as well.” DeRemer’s commitment to student success continued out of the classroom as well. DeRemer was an integral part of the peerfacilitated academic support system MavPASS. Through MavPASS, students in traditionally challenging courses like Accounting 200 and Economics 202 can get help from a fellow student who has done well in the class in a previous semester. DeRemer took over facilitation of the program from a retired faculty member.
I believe Mark was motivated by his caring about student success and his loyalty to the department and the College.
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“Of all of Mark’s service activities, perhaps this one is the most appreciated by the department and the College of Business,” says Brennan. “Mark’s willingness to take on the task was an immense relief as this was a signature program for the department. We were one of the pioneers in the University in implementing this type of activity and letting it lapse would have been tragic. I believe Mark was motivated by his caring about student success and his loyalty to the department and the College.”
