大峡谷州立大学 was founded in 1960 and opened its doors in 1963. (更多欧洲杯押注网页 history and creation of 大峡谷州立大学 可以在这里找到.) The first economics courses were taught in 1965, with a School of Business and Economics being established in 1970.

Through a generous gift provided by the Seidman Family Foundation, the F.E. Seidman Graduate College was formed in 1973. The undergraduate and graduate programs were merged into one School, the Seidman College, in 1979. After a university-wide restructuring in 1983, the Seidman College was re-named the Seidman School of Business, offering the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics, 工商管理硕士(MBA), and Master of Science in Taxation (MST) degrees. The Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) was added in 2002. In July 2004, the Seidman School was once again re-named the 塞德曼商学院. 1988年，大急流城L.V. Eberhard Center provided opportunities to offer courses in 大急流城 in addition to those offered on the Allendale Campus. The College has continued to grow and prosper, 增加新的教职员工, and expanding its program outreach to the Lakeshore communities of Muskegon and Holland. As demand for space continued, the 塞德曼商学院 moved two more times.  In the summer of 2000, the college moved into the Richard M. DeVos Center, a new $50 million facility on the Robert C. Pew 大急流城 Campus that housed a variety of university programs and services.  Then in May of 2013, the College called the newly constructed L. 威廉·塞德曼中心，它的新家.

这个新设施, housing all of the College’s programs as well as its business outreach centers, bolsters the many linkages that the College has formed with both the local and international business communities from a prime downtown location on the Grand River.

AACSB国际 - The Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business - first accredited all of the business programs in 1997, including a separate accounting accreditation. The 塞德曼商学院 has maintained AACSB accreditation at the college level and with our School of Accounting since 1997. Fewer than 25% of AACSB schools maintain both of these accreditation standards. 塞德曼商学院 is the only business school in the 大急流城 region and one of two in West 密歇根 to maintain the rigor deserving of this quality standard. 阅读更多欧洲杯押注的AACSB认证 在这里.

塞德曼遗产

The 塞德曼商学院 was named in honor of the late Frank Edward Seidman, who for more than 50 years was a distinguished member of the 大急流城 business community and a partner in the national accounting firm of BDO/Seidman (now BDO). He was nationally recognized as a business and civic leader, an economist, and a philanthropist. For many years he wrote a newspaper column on business and economics and contributed to numerous professional journals. He was also the co-author of three technical books, Legislative 历史 of the Federal Income Tax Law, Financing the War, and Accounting Handbook.

Mr. Seidman worked for both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in commercial science by attending night classes at New York University. He placed a high value on education and was devoted to improving educational opportunities for all persons from all backgrounds.  He was especially dedicated to improving the level of competence in the business and public sectors, 不仅在他自己的公司, but also in all of the organizations it audited. 他努力帮助别人成功.

He was, in every sense, a creative businessman. His own competence and remarkable qualities of leadership were reflected in the many honors bestowed upon him. He was chairman of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee on the 密歇根 Tax Study and of the 密歇根 State Board of Accountancy. He was a director of the 大急流城 Community Chest and the Community Services of Kent County for 25 years and was a long-time director of the 大急流城 Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization of its kind in the area. As a trustee of the Thomas Erler Seidman Foundation, 以已故儿子的名字命名, he was instrumental in providing youth-building and educational opportunities for thousands of young persons in the 大急流城 area as well as funds for the Seidman House at Grand Valley.

建立塞德曼学院, Grand Valley intended to embody the philosophy, 的想法, 先生的精神. Seidman and to provide a place to gain an education in business administration in West 密歇根.

正如质量是奥巴马先生的标志一样. 塞德曼的努力, so quality in education has been made the touchstone of the 塞德曼商学院. Grand Valley’s purpose has been to honor the man not merely by affixing his name to the college, but by perpetuating the high ideals to which he personally dedicated himself.