She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from Michigan State University and has been on the faculty at UM-Dearborn since 1993. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master of Business Administration from Marquette University. She worked as a registered nurse for eight years in a variety of specialty areas before entering graduate school. Her current teaching and research interests are in corporate finance and finance pedagogy.