Aurora grad drives automotive restoration program at MC

Dudley guides students at Kansas’s McPherson College

  • Mike Dudley is a professor at McPherson College in McPherson, Kan. For eleven years he has taught students within the college’s auto restoration program. It is the only college in the U.S. where a student earn a degree in automotive restoration.
    Mike Dudley is a professor at McPherson College in McPherson, Kan. For eleven years he has taught students within the college’s auto restoration program. It is the only college in the U.S. where a student earn a degree in automotive restoration.

    Aurora native Michael ‘Mike’ Dudley has spent the past 11 years as a professor of technology in the auto restoration program at McPherson College in McPherson, Kan.While there he has helped students grow and pursue their passions in the automotive industry.While growing up in Aurora in a family of five, Dudley developed an interest in antique cars through his father, Robert.“My dad was more mechan…