Issue link: http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/i/535050
66 BizEd JULY | AUGUST 2015 people+places Larry W. (Chip) Hunter is the new leader of Wash- ington State University's Carson College of Business in Pullman. He most recently served as senior asso- ciate dean and Pyle-Bascom Professor of Leadership at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was also associate dean for the school's full-time MBA program. Rowena Ortiz-Walters has been named the new dean of SUNY Plattsburgh's School of Business and Economics. She was previously chair of manage- ment at Quinnipiac University's School of Business and Engineering in Hamden, Connecticut. She will begin her new position July 1. Robert L. Brown will be the new dean of the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. Brown, who has been an instructor at the school since 2000, will begin his tenure as dean and professor on June 1. He replaces Daniel Bauer, who plans to return to full-time teaching after 14 years as dean. Caryn Beck-Dudley will be the next dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in California. She previously served as dean of the College of Business at Florida State University in Tallahassee and at the College of Business at Utah State University in Logan. She will assume her new post August 1. Eli Jones has been named dean of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in College Station and will assume his new position on July 1. Jones most recently was dean at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Ricky Gri†n has been serving as interim dean of Mays since Jerry Strawser became the university's vice president of finance and chief financial o¡cer in September. In July, Michael Fekula becomes dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of South Carolina in Aiken, where he formerly had been a professor. In his new role, Fekula also will act as a professor of business management and as holder of the Mr. and Mrs. Phinizy Timmerman Chair in Enterprise Development. Fekula most recently was head of the department of leadership studies at The Citadel in Charleston, South Caroli- na. He succeeds Clifton Jones. On July 1, Christopher D. Martin will assume lead- ership of the College of Business at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. He was most recently dean of the Frost School of Business at Centenary College in Shreveport. Martin replaces James Lumpkin. Brian Kench has been appointed dean of the University of New Hampshire College of Business in Durham. He began his job on June 8. Kench previously was chair of the economics department at the University of Tampa, and he also is past president of the Academy of Business Economics. In May, Jose M. Aldrich became acting dean of the Florida International University's College of Business in Miami. Aldrich most recently was vice dean of administration who came to the school after a 35-year career with KPMG. He took over from David R. Klock, who remains with the school as a professor. Jacqueline Mozrall, interim dean of the Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, has been selected as the new dean of the school and will take that post im- mediately. Mozrall previously was senior associate dean of RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Arjang A. Assad has been named the Henry E. Haller Jr. Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration in Pennsylvania. Assad will succeed John Delaney, who plans to assume a faculty position after nine years as dean. Assad's appointment is e–ective July 1. In August, Laura Milner will become the new dean of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's College of Business Administration. Milner is currently as- sociate dean of the College of Business at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. She replaces Bruce May, who is planning to retire. Beth Walker, chair of the marketing department at Arizona State University in Tempe, has been named dean of the Colorado State University Col- lege of Business in Fort Collins. Walker will replace Ajay Menon, who is returning to the classroom after a dozen years as dean. Walker starts July 1. Earlier this year, Juyoung Kim became dean of Sogang Business School in Seoul, South Korea. Kim has been on the faculty of the school for more than a decade. He replaces outgoing dean Young S. Park, who has resumed his faculty position at the school. Ali R. Malekzadeh, dean of the College of Busi- ness Administration at Kansas State University in Manhattan, has been named the sixth president of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He takes his new position July 1. At Kansas State, Malekzadeh Eli Jones Caryn Beck-Dudley Patrick Maggitti Ali R. Malekzadeh Laura Milner Arjang A. Assad