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15 BizEd May/June 2014 OR LAN DO FLOR I N ROSU /TH I N KSTOCK Douglas A. Shackelford, Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation and associate dean of the school's MBA@UNC Pro- gram. Shackelford succeeds James W. Dean, who moved from the business school to become vice chancellor and provost of the university in 2013. John P. Evans has served as interim dean. ■ Yunzeng Wang has been named dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of California Riverside. Wang, who previ- ously was interim dean, will now serve a five-year term. ■ Frank Linnehan will serve as the permanent dean of Drexel University's LeBow College of Business in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. Linne- han has been serving as the interim dean of the college since 2012, when George P. Tsetsekos stepped down. ■ In April, Richard D. White Jr. assumed his role as dean of the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. White, who has served as interim dean since June 2012, is the Marjory B. Ourso Pro- fessor and associate dean, a professor in the Public Administration Institute, and a professor for the LSU Flores MBA Program. ■ Rakesh Khurana has been named dean of Harvard College, an undergraduate program within Harvard Uni- versity in Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts. Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. ■ The University of West Florida in Pensacola recently recognized Ed Ranelli as Dean Emeritus in honor of his service to the College of Business. Ranelli served as the college's dean from 2000–2013. ■ Dennis Hanno has been named chair of the board of trustees for the Glob- ally Responsible Leadership Initiative. Hanno is provost and senior vice president at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. ■ H. Fenwick Huss has been recommended as the Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zick- lin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City. He also will assume a faculty position in Baruch's Stan Ross Department of Accountancy. He has served as dean of the J. Mack Rob- inson College of Business at Georgia State University since 2004. HONORS AND AWARDS ■ The United States Associa- tion for Small Business and Entre- preneurship (USABE) recently honored entrepreneurial business schools with its Excellence in Education Awards. The University of Texas in Dallas won the National Model MBA Entrepreneurship Award; the University of Tampa in Florida won the Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program Award; the Uni- versity of Maryland in College Park was recognized for its Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program; the University of Missouri in Kansas City was honored as the National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program; and the Entrepreneurship Development Insti- tute of India, Ahmedabad, was recognized as Outstand- ing Entrepreneurship Program Abroad. More informa- tion about USABE can be found at www.usasbe.org. ssocia- mall Business and Entre- BE) recently honored STEPPING DOWN ■ Paul Danos has announced he will not seek reappoint- ment for a sixth term as dean of Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business in Hanover, New Hampshire. His current term ends in June 2015. Danos, who is also the Laurence F. Whittemore Pro- fessor of Business, joined the school in 1995 and oversaw the expansion of the school's faculty and facilities, increases in its student enrollments, the launch of nine centers and ini- tiatives, and the start of new academic programs. ■ On August 1, Carl Moore will retire as dean of the Mitch- ell College of Business at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Of the 43 years he spent serving the university, he spent 25 as dean. During his tenure, the college created a master of accounting program and a DBA in management and established the Center for Real Estate and Economic Development and the Melton Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. ■ Ajay Menon will step down as dean of the College of Business at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, effec- tive June 2015 or as soon as a new dean is recruited. Menon, who has been dean since 2002, plans to return to teaching. Under his tenure, the faculty roster has grown from 55 to 83 and enrollments have risen from 294 in 2004 to 1,546 in 2013. COLLABORATIONS ■ Singapore Management University (SMU) and Copen- hagen Business School in Denmark have signed a mem-