NEWS&BRIEFS- SOM Professor Remembered for Dedication to UM-Flint

Dennis Ellis, Ph.D., professor emeritus of business economics, passed away on December 9, 2020. He was 80 years old.

A professor of economics and business statistics, Ellis was an active researcher, publishing multiple articles and two books: A Managerial Guide to Business Forecasting and Business Cycles and Forecasting. He was a contributing editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting and on the Board of Directors of International Association of Business Forecasting. He received bachelor’s degrees from Alma College and the University of Detroit, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Wayne State University.

Ellis retired from UM-Flint in 2003. He continued teaching occasionally through Fall 2015, focusing on such courses as business conditions analysis in the BBA program and the managerial economics courses in the MBA program.