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Whittemore Professor of Business Administration, has been asked to serve a third term as dean of the Tuck School. ■ Honors have been bestowed upon two professors at The Jesse H. Jones School of Management at Rice Uni- versity, Houston, Texas. Stephen A. Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting, has been named Honorary Research Fellow by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. In addition, Jeff Fleming has been selected for the Rice Uni- versity Teaching Excellence Award for the second time. ■ Earl Naumann has been named the new Director of Graduate Pro- grammes for the University of Otago's School of Business in New Zealand. Naumann, a leading academic and professional consultant in customer loyalty, will be responsible for the future direction of Otago's MBA program and Executive MBA program in Auckland. Previously, he has worked with corporations such as British Telecom, Lufthansa Airlines, Hewlett-Packard, and General Mo- tors, to help them forge strategic relationships with key customers. ■ Charles M. Brooks has been appointed associate dean of the School of Busi- ness at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. In his new position, Brooks will be responsible for faculty development programs, course scheduling, and oversight of the day-to-day operations of the School of Business. Holder of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles was honored as the 2003 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The annual award recognizes full-time college accounting educators for excellence in teaching and national prominence in the accounting pro- fession. Holder is the Ernst & Young Professor at USC's Leventhal School of Accounting, part of the Marshall School of Business, and serves as di- rector of USC's SEC and Financial Reporting Institute. ■ William W. ■ The Indiana University Kelley School of Business Indianapolis and the IU Center on Philanthropy have announced the selection of former Penn State business professor Philip L. Cochran as the new Thomas W. Bin- ford Chair in Corporate Citizenship. Cochran, the founding president of the International Association for Business and Society, has focused his teaching and research on corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and corporate strategy. ■ The DuPree College of Manage- ment at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, has announced a new organizational structure for and additions to its executive leader- ship team. It includes Terry C. Blum, dean of the college since 1999; Nate Bennett, who joined the college in 1999 and has been named senior associate dean; Eugene Comiskey, the Fuller Calloway Professor of Ac- counting since 1980 and associate dean of faculty and research; and Lee G. Caldwell, new associate dean of pro- grams and student services, who joined the college last December. ■ Key promotions and new hires have taken place at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Deborah Avery has been promoted to assistant dean of under- graduate programs; Melissa Wieczorek has been named director of the school's executive MBA program; Valerie Sutton has been appointed di- rector of the new Graduate Career Management Center; and Corinne Snell has been named director of the Center for Student Professional Devel opment. ■ The Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University in Washington has announced that Marilyn Gist will be the new director of the Executive Leadership Program, an intensive lead- ership develop- ment program for mid- and senior-level management executives. ■ Wichita State University's W. Frank Barton School of Business in Kansas has signed a student-faculty ex- change agreement with the Berlin School of Economics in Germany. The agreement provides for student exchanges, faculty exchanges, joint research, and joint programs. ■ z BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2003 15