Aaron Dworkin was named by Crain Communications in their annual national “Crain100 Innovators, Disruptors and Change Makers in Business,” published in September. As founder of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization that will celebrate its 20th year in 2017, and as dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Dworkin has spent his career advocating for minority representation and entrepreneurship in the performing arts.
Michael Jordan, director of the Center for Global and Intercultural Study, has been named Volunteer of the Year by IES Abroad. The award recognizes an individual who has supported and strengthened the mission of the study abroad field through extraordinary volunteer efforts. “I am honored to have been recognized,” he said. “IES runs programs of the highest quality, and I appreciate the many opportunities I’ve had to work with them over the past 10 years.” Jordan has been CGIS director since 2012. IES Abroad is a global, not-for-profit academic consortium of more than 240 top-tier American colleges and universities that provide study abroad and internship programs around the world.
