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opportunities for faculty and stu- dents, and improve the college's abil- ity to communicate with alumni and supporters. ■ The Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in College Station received a $500,000 gift from alum- nus Brandon C. Coleman Jr. The money will provide for a business chair in the marketing department in Coleman's name. The gift was matched by the A&M's Vision 2020 Matching Program to create a $1 million endowed chair. ■ Minnis Ridenour, executive vice presi- dent and chief operating officer of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, will be stepping down from his position during the summer of 2004. He plans to continue teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels in financial management for govern- mental and nonprofit organizations during the academic year 2004-05. He will also handle resource devel- opment and special projects as re- quested by the administration. ■ The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder has received a $1 million donation from Dick and Jean Engebretson, both alums of CU. The money will be used to support various initiatives. Dick Engebretson is the executive vice president of DMG World Media, an international exhibition and publishing company. ■ In other news from Leeds, the school has announced that Robert Kolb has been appointed assistant dean for business and society. In this position, he will coordinate the Leeds School's business and society initiative that examines the impact business has on society. The initiative also includes related programs such as the annual Japha Symposium on Professional and Business Ethics and the Leeds Sum- mit Award for Social Impact. sity of Washington Business School in Seattle. The professorship was es- tablished in 2001 with gifts totaling $1 million from The Boeing Co. ■ Richard L. Nolan, professor emeritus of The Harvard Busi- ness School, has been named the inaugural Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair in Business Administration at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, where he was founder and director of the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative. He will hold the President's Term Chair in Family Enterprising and serve as an assistant professor of entrepreneurship. ■ Babson College of Wellesley, Massa- chusetts, has established the Insti- tute for Family Enterprising within the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship. Founding direc- tor of the institute, Timothy Habbershon, comes to Babson from the Univer- ■ The Weatherhead School of Man- agement at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, has announced two new appointments. Scott Shane has become a full-time professor in the school's economics department, while Edward M. Morrison is the new executive director of the Weatherhead Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI). Shane, who will also serve as academic director of REI, is a leading scholar in the study of entrepreneurship and technology transfer. Morrison, an economic de- velopment consultant for 18 years, has developed strategies for organi- zations around the country and manages a joint venture in China for American investors. ■ z BizEd NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003 15