Fall 2021 Campus News

SHU Global Brand Launches in August 2021

In August 2021, the University introduced its SHU Global brand to the external community. So just what is SHU Global? SHU Global is Siena Heights University’s experience of educating professional working students. It’s not a what, but a why. SHU Global’s mission is to meet the educational and professional needs of students. It is the culmination of more than 45 years of delivering quality and affordable academic programs where students are in their lives and careers. That originally meant offering undergraduate and graduate programs at one of our several Michigan locations. Since 2004, it now includes our nationally ranked Online Program. Here are the characteristics of the SHU Global experience:

Rising Stars

“Rising Stars” is a regular feature in Reflections. It profiles Siena Heights alumni who have graduated within the past 10 years and who excel in their careers, occupations or community service accomplishments. To be considered for “Rising Stars” in an upcoming issue of Reflections, fill out the online form at www.sienaheights.edu/risingstars. Those who are selected to be included in an upcoming issue of the magazine will be contacted by the Reflections staff.

Renata Bush

Graduation year: 2012.

Current title/position: CEO, LPC, & School Counselor.

What Renata is doing: She currently works as a school counselor for the largest school district in Michigan, contracted by two counseling and psychiatry offices. She is the CEO and President of her own counseling agency in Oakland County (Mich.) and executive director of a 501c3 organization that assist hundreds of youth, families and other organizations in the tri-county area in metro Detroit.

My favorite moment/story while a student at Siena Heights was: “I love my professors and the family atmosphere shared with my colleagues! It was a wonderful experience! And I can’t go without mentioning my trip to Ireland with Dr. McDonald. I can do it all over again!”

Siena Heights Gets A New “REP”

Siena Heights University has a long history of bringing higher education to diverse and often underserved student populations. From starting a degree completion program for professional adults in a former elementary school in Southfield, Mich., more than 45 years ago, to becoming a pioneer in online higher education, Siena Heights has led the way.

It is now leading again. Thanks in part to the federal Second Chance Pell program and a partnership between the Michigan Department of Corrections and Jackson College, Siena Heights will offer the Corrections Education Program for those incarcerated in Michigan prisons. Renamed the Rising Education Program, it will offer a bachelor’s degree option for those prisoners who have completed their associate’s degree through Jackson College.

“Siena has a longstanding relationship with Jackson College currently,” said Jim Gornick, SHU’s associate director of REP. “We thought it would be a great opportunity to have those prisoners who were in the Jackson College program working towards their associate’s degree to continue on and potentially earn their bachelor’s degree in business administration.”