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14 July/August 2014 BizEd headlines Business at Southern Illinois University, where he helped focus the university's energies on regional engagement and economic development. ■ Andrew Ain- slie has been named the seventh dean of the University of Rochester's Simon Business School in New York. He took the office after Mark Zupan's term as dean ended on June 30. Ainslie had been a senior associate dean of the full- time MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 2010 and an associate professor of marketing since 2005. ■ On August 1, Elizabeth B. Davis becomes dean of the School of Man- agement at the University of San Francisco in California. She is the first woman to hold that position. She is currently dean of the College of Business and pro- fessor of management at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. ■ Charles Seifert has been selected as dean of Siena College's School of Business in Loudonville, New York. He was most recently professor of management and executive director of Siena's Institute for Leadership Development. ■ East Tennessee State Uni- versity in Johnson City has announced Dennis R. Depew as dean of the College of Business and Technology. He is dean emeritus of the College of Technology at Indiana's Purdue University, where he was also a profes- sor of technology leadership and innovation. ■ Robert Beatty is the new dean of the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University. He was previously business dean and professor at Rowan University in New Jersey. He replaces Hudson Rogers, who has accepted a job as provost of Valdosta State University in Georgia. ■ James Hoffman has been named the dean of the Col- lege of Business at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. He was previ- ously a professor and former associate dean in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. ■ Starting July 1, Craig White will be the interim dean of the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management in Albuquerque. White is the current chair of the depart- ment of accounting and the Moss Adams Professor of Accounting. He takes his new post following the retire- ment of Douglas Brown, under whose leadership the school was reaccredited, achieved record fundraising efforts, and secured a com- mitment for a new building. ■ David A. Whidbee, associ- ate dean for faculty affairs and research in Washington State University's College of Business in Pullman, has been named interim dean of the college. Whidbee, who joined WSU in 1997, holds the Omer L. Carey Chair in Financial Education. He replaces Eric R. Spangenberg, who has accepted a position as dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. STEPPING DOWN ■ The University of Virginia has announced that Robert F. Bruner will step down as dean of the Darden School of Business upon the completion of his second term in 2015. He will take a one-year leave of absence and return to the faculty. During Bruner's tenure, Darden underwent curricular reform and launched two new formats of its MBA, both targeted at executives. Bruner oversaw fundraising efforts that netted US$150 million for the school and encouraged the school to embrace cutting-edge tech- nology such as MOOCs and e-readers. ■ Craig McAllaster, the long- est-serving dean of Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business in Winter Park, Florida, ended his ten- ure May 30 after 14 years. He plans to return to teach- ing. During his deanship, he hired more than 75 percent of current faculty, launched accelerated and blended MBA programs, created the Center for Advanced Entre- preneurship and the Center for Leadership Development, and led a major renovation of the school's distance learning technology. ■ Mirta Martin, dean of Virginia State University's Reginald F. Lewis School of Business in Petersburg, has left the university to become the ninth president of Fort Hays State University in Kansas. Martin became dean of the business school in 2009. Under her leadership, the school began delivering its core curriculum in a pre- dominantly digital format and secured the funding gift that named the school. ■ Sanjay Varshney will step down as dean of the College of Business Administration at California State University in Sacramento. During Varsh- ney's ten years as dean, the college launched an inter- national MBA in Singapore, developed a business hon- ors program, and partnered with regional businesses for its EMBA. He will continue producing the Sacramento Business Review economic forecast. SHORT TAKES COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER