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13 BizEd November/ December 2014 PAU L G R ECAU D/TH I N KSTOCK NEW APPOINTMENTS ■ Singapore Management University has appointed Gerard George as the new dean for its Lee Kong Chian School of Business. George, who begins his term January 1, currently is deputy dean and director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre at the Imperial College Business School in the U.K. He replaces Howard Thomas, who will remain with the school as a distinguished professor of strategic man- agement and management education. ■ Turney Ste- vens (left), who has been dean of the Lipscomb University's College of Busi- ness in Nashville, Tennessee, since 2008, has become dean emeritus of the school. In that role, he will focus on development initiatives and continue as executive direc- tor of Lipscomb's Hilton and Sallie Dean Institute for Corporate Governance and Integrity. Ray Eldridge (left), a senior associ- ate dean and professor of management in the college, has been named interim dean. ■ Ramin Cooper Maysami has been named dean of Jackson State University's College of Business in Mississippi. Maysami most recently was dean and pro- fessor of economics and finance at the School of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. ■ Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, has appointed Dipak C. Jain as the second director in the school's history. A visiting professor at Sasin since 1989, Jain has previously served as dean at INSEAD and at Northwestern Uni- versity's Kellogg School of Management. He succeeds Toemsakdi Krishnamra, who founded Sasin and has led the school of manage- ment for the past 32 years. ■ Beryl McEwen is the new dean for the School of Business and Economics (SOBE) at North Carolina A&T State in Greensboro. She was most recently the school's vice provost for strategic planning and insti- tutional effectiveness. ■ Mark Higgins has been named the next dean of the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis Uni- versity in Missouri. Higgins has been a member of the University of Rhode Island's faculty since 1988 and was appointed dean of the URI's business college in 2006. His tenure at the Cook School begins January 1. GIFTS AND DONATIONS ■ Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts has received US$40 million from longtime benefactor Robert A. Foisie, the largest gift in its history. Like much of the money Foisie has donated over the years—more than $63 million total—the bulk of the funds will go toward student scholarships. In recognition of his gifts, the university has renamed the WPI School of Business the Robert A. Foisie School of Business; a new innovation center also will be named for the donor. ■ Texas Christian Uni- versity in Fort Worth has received a US$30 million gift from salesman Spencer Hays and his wife, Marlene. The money will serve as a foundation gift in a $100 mil- lion facility expansion for the Neeley School of Business. Spencer Hays is an alum and a trustee emeritus of the school. ■ The College of Business at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg has received a US$10 million gift from entrepreneur Kate Tiedemann, the founder and former CEO of Katena Products, an eye instru- ment company. In recogni- tion of her gift, the largest in the school's history, the school is being named the Kate Tiedemann College of Business. ■ Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, has received a US$3 mil- lion gift from Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Wine Spectator magazine, through the Wine Spec- tator Scholar- ship Founda- tion. The gift will support the construc- tion of the new home for SSU's Wine Busi- ness Institute, which will be named the Wine Spectator Learning Center. ■ La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received a US$3 million gift from Edward Fierko, vice chair of the school's board of trustees, and his wife. The money will go toward con- struction of a new six-story $35 million School of Busi- ness facility. NEW PROGRAMS ■ The Kelley School of Busi- ness at Indiana University in Bloomington has teamed with the College of Arts and Sciences to offer several new accelerated master's degrees in the sciences, mathematics, information technology, and other disciplines. Students SHORT TAKES US$3 mil- lion gift from Marvin hanken, editor and publisher of Wine Spectator magazine, through pec- 's Wine Busi