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Colangelo College of Business Assistant Dean Dr. Ed Slover made a distinction between self-reliance and arrogance during his induction as an honorary member of Grand Canyon University's Eta Chi Chapter of international business honor society Delta Mu Delta.
Slover, the keynote speaker, shared his life experiences with the inductees, from a misdiagnosis of his health as a child, to growing up as a latchkey kid, to being baffled at not getting hired for three positions after landing jobs at previous spots after interviewing as a finalist.
“Especially for those of you who are smart, ambitious and driven to success, it will be a slippery slope,” Slover said at the business college lobby. “Take caution at that line between self-reliance, which is a superior good thing, and arrogance, that's not so much. And when you find yourself in difficult spaces, please remember this, our job is obedience. God's job is the outcome.”
To be invited to join the Eta Chi Chapter, recently named the 2025 Anthony J. Jablonsky Outstanding Chapter of the Year, students must have at least 24 credits in the college, be a junior or senior in the top 20% of their program and be in good standing with the university.
The honorees at the ceremony were Seth Stevens, Dr. Denise Navarro, James Boyachek, Jeremiah Zamani, Mario Ochoa, Cesar Valadez, Malia Alyssa Leonen Ebueng, Alexis Garcia Wiest and Tamrynn Heimbigner. Lauren Biersner and Alayna Letcher also were inducted.
