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Ed Hums ’75<br />

Associate Professional Specialist, Accountancy<br />

Biography<br />

Ed Hums was promoted to associate professional specialist in 2006 after serving three years<br />

as an assistant professional specialist, and two years as an adjunct faculty member. Currently<br />

he teaches financial and managerial accounting to undergraduates, and team teaches a<br />

course in the Master’s in Non-Profit Administration <strong>Program</strong>. Hums also lectures in the<br />

Executive Education program at the University. He received the Frank O’Malley Teaching<br />

Categories<br />

Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education in 2004, the Paul Fenlon Undergraduate<br />

Teaching Award in 2005, and the 2008 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Business, Notre Dame<br />

Undergraduate Teaching. In 2006, Hums was profiled in BusinessWeek as one of America’s<br />

favorite business professors. Hums served in various administrative roles for 26 years at the<br />

University, including budgeting, financial planning, tax reporting, systems management, and<br />

financial reporting. In 1989, while working in administration, he began teaching on a part-time basis.<br />

Lecture<br />

Wandering Through the Rail Yard<br />

This lecture focuses on several areas: It discusses how an industry that is viewed as archaic by most of the population possesses<br />

so many unseen high technology systems. It reviews the history of the rail industry’s assistance in bringing Notre Dame and the<br />

club’s area into national prominence. Finally, it discusses how the rail industry is integrated into the classroom at Notre Dame.<br />

The Hesburgh Lecture Series, <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Program</strong> 53

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