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headlines Women Take The Dean's Chair IN RECENT WEEKS, a significant number of new deans appointed at American business schools have had one factor in common: They've all been women. Although the most recent statistics show that only 18 percent of the deans at AACSB-accredited schools are women, that number would appear to be climbing in the past few months alone as five schools named women to their highest posts: San Francisco State University in California appointed Linda S. Oubre dean of the College of Busi- ness, starting in July. Oubre was most recently part of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, where she directed corporate rela- tions and business development for the Bay Area and served as chief diversity officer. She previously taught at UC Davis, Northwestern, and Wharton, and she has held key positions with BriteSmile, the Walt Disney Company, and LATimes.com. Rochester Institute of Technology in New York appointed dt ogilvie as dean of its E. Philip Saunders Col- lege of Business, effective August 1. She joins RIT from Rutgers Business School at Newark-New Brunswick in New Jersey, where she served as a professor of business strategy and urban entrepreneurship. She is the found- ing director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development and founding director of the Scholars Training and Enrichment Program at Rutgers. In May, Kathy "Kat" Schwaig was named dean of the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State 10 July/August 2012 BizEd University in Georgia. She had been serving as interim dean since July 2010. Some of her previous roles at the school include posts as associate dean for academic affairs, interim chair for the department of accounting, and interim chair for the department of computer sci- ence and information systems at the university's Col- lege of Science and Mathematics. Martine Duchatelet will be the new dean of the Col- lege of Business & Public Administration and executive dean of Eastern Washington University in Spokane. Duchatelet, who was previously dean of the School of Management at Purdue University Calu- met in Hammond, Indiana, began her duties in June. Duchatelet replaces interim dean Beth Tipton, who took over after the retirement of Niel Zimmerman. Another woman, Jane Mutchler, will succeed Duchatelet at the School of Man- agement at Purdue University Calumet. Mutchler was most recently associate dean for academic planning and programs at Georgia State University in Atlanta. There she also held the title of Ernst & Young- J.W. Holloway Memorial Alumni Profes- sor of Accounting, and she had previously been director of the School of Accoun- tancy at Georgia State's Robinson College of Business. She has also held posts at The Ohio State University, the University of Arizona, and Penn State University. They join two women whose appoint- ments were announced in the May/June issue of BizEd: Sarah Gardial of the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and Srilata Zaheer of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Other high-profile deanships have gone to women in recent years. Alison Davis-Blake—who was the Carlson School's first female dean in 2006—became dean of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 2011, and Sally Blount was named to the top post at North- western University's Kellogg School of Management in 2010. While well-known deans like the University of Notre Dame's Carolyn Woo have also stepped down in the interim, a quick look at the numbers indicates that the percentages might be shifting for good. dt ogilvie Linda S. Oubre Kathy Schwaig A. SUE WEISLER

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