Notice Board

The University of Lethbridge extends its condolences to the family, friends and former colleagues of Dr. Harold (Hal) Schroeder, former associate professor in the Faculty of Management (now Dhillon School of Business), who passed away Feb. 2, 2025, at the age of 88.

Schroeder came to ULethbridge in 1981 to begin his role as an associate professor, a position he would hold until his retirement in 2004. Over that time, he served as acting associate dean for two years and upon stepping away from his full-time teaching duties, was a sessional instructor.

In 1999 he was selected by the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans to serve on a team of four Canadian instructors conducting a series of courses for practicing managers at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2000 he was again selected for the professor exchange program in Hokkai-Gakuen University in Japan.

In 2002 he was asked to delay his retirement to spend a summer at the Edmonton campus of the University of Lethbridge to teach and provide some mentoring in the Strategic Management course.

During much of his career at two universities Harold was very involved in the broader academic community. He served in the management of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) for nine years, with three years at the divisional level and six years on the national executive, including two years as treasurer. In the latter part of his career, he got very involved in case research and authored numerous cases. “Bringing real-life management cases to the classroom”, especially for students in western Canada, increasingly became his passion as he was approaching the end of his career. In the mid-1990s he led a group of University of Lethbridge faculty members and several other case researchers in a case writing project which culminated in several editions of Cases and Readings in Strategic Management, edited by him. Published by Nelson Canada, it became the first custom case publishing project in Canada.

In retirement, Schroeder volunteered for the Ecumenical Campus Ministry and he and his wife served on the ECM Board of Directors.

An obituary notice is available here. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Feb. 15, at 1 p.m. at the McKillop United Church (2329 15 Ave S, Lethbridge, AB T1K2L8). The University will lower its flag in honour of Schroeder on that date.