Expanding Impact, Innovation, and Scale Across Broad
Graduate Initiatives & Academic Innovation is a strategic unit within the Eli Broad College of Business that expands the impact of academic units by integrating strategy, innovation, and shared expertise. Units across Broad already deliver high-quality programs and learning experiences; our role is to help that work reach further, improve continuously, and scale sustainably.
Our Mission
We elevate business education at Broad by expanding innovation, opportunity, and impact—working in partnership with academic units to design and deliver high-quality, future-focused learning experiences that support learner success and institutional growth.
Expanding Graduate Program Growth
- Collaborate with academic units to launch and redesign graduate degrees, certificates, and stackable credentials
- Apply market insight to expand online and hybrid delivery models
- Guide programs forward from vision to execution
- Drive high-quality course and program development across delivery modes
- Apply learning design best practices and emerging educational technologies
- Enhance instructional quality, accessibility, and learner engagement
- Leverage expertise in marketing and recruitment to grow enrollments
- Facilitate shared experiences and engagement efforts to improve outcomes
- Scale effective practices while reducing duplication
- Develop international academic and industry partnerships
- Support global enrollment strategies and experiential learning
- Build scalable models for global engagement
Meet Our Team
Cheri DeClercq
- Assistant Dean - Graduate Initiatives & Academic Innovation
Dean's Office
Andrea Bates
- Program Coordinator, Graduate Operations & Academic Services
Accounting and Information Systems
Matthew Bennett
- Learning Experience Design Specialist
Dean's Office
Joel Bradley
- Communications Manager I
Dean's Office
Erika Busch
- Business Manager
Full-Time MBA Program - Business Manager
Executive MBA Program
Julie Delgado
- Assistant Director, Healthcare Management
Full-Time MBA Program
Casie Grimes
- Program Coordinator, Graduate Operations & Academic Services
Marketing
Susan Halick
- Instructional Technology Specialist
Dean's Office
Clynton Hunt
- Director for Global Initiatives
Dean's Office
Gregory Janicki
- Director
Executive MBA Program
Vickie Lehtonen
- Associate Director, Graduate Operations & Academic Services
Marketing
Jessica Richards
- Senior Director, Graduate Operations & Academic Services
Marketing
Ian Semivan
- Director of Graduate Enrollment Marketing
Marketing and Communications Office
Natalie Vandepol
- Director of Learning Technology and Development
Dean's Office
Scot Wright
- Director of Community Outreach and Belonging
Full-Time MBA Program
Connect with Us
- Graduate Initiatives & Academic Innovation
- Eli Broad College of Business
- Michigan State University
- grad@broad.msu.edu