UM-Dearborn Student Overcomes Disability to Graduate at Top of Class
Josef Zenicki of Livonia graduated with a business degree and a 3.96 GPA in the fall.
The undergraduate students of University of Michigan-Dearborn's Class of 2012 may have followed different paths to graduation, but few could top the one Josef Zenicki traveled in December. “I don’t worry about obstacles. I always know there are ways around them,” said Josef Zenicki, a recent University of Michigan-Dearborn graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting. Zenicki uses a wheelchair and has very limited use of his hands, but maintained a 3.96 GPA, earning him the honor of high distinction and a chancellor’s medallion, which is awarded to only six students each semester. He also earned a dean’s scholarship, the FEI Academic Excellence Award, and the J. Steward Linden Foundation Scholarship. “He is …
