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13 BizEd September/October 2014 NEW APPOINTMENTS ■ Avinandan "Avi" Mukher- jee has been appointed dean of the College of Business at Clayton State University in Mor- row, Georgia. ■ On July 1, Charles Iacovou became dean of the Wake Forest Univer- sity School of Business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Previously, Iacovou has served as direc- tor of the full-time MBA pro- gram, senior associate dean of graduate programs, senior associate dean of faculty, and vice dean of the school. ■ Mike Eikenberry has joined Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne as the new dean of the Richard T. Doermer School of Business. Eikenberry was most recently Indiana regional president of PNC bank and is a longtime business leader in the com- munity. He began his new duties on July 1, replacing Otto Chang, who is returning to teaching and research. ■ On July 1, Richard D. Phil- lips became the new dean of Georgia State University's Rob- inson College of Business in Atlanta. Phillips, the C.V. Starr Professor of Risk Man- agement and Insurance, was most recently associate dean of academic initiatives and innovation at the school. ■ Jorge Haddock has been named dean of the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He most recently served as dean of the School of Management at George Mason University. Had- dock succeeds interim dean Maureen Scully, who will direct the College's new PhD program in business administration. ■ Murray M. Dalziel has been named dean of the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business in Maryland. He joined the school in August. Dalziel was formerly director of the University of Liverpool Management School. ■ Roger Wil- liams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, has appointed Susan McTiernan to lead the Gabelli School of Business. McTiernan comes to Roger Williams from Quin- nipiac University, where she served as associate dean and associate professor of management in the School of Business. ■ James Payne is the new dean of the J. Whitney Bun- ting College of Business at Georgia College & State Uni- versity in Milledgeville. Payne was most recently provost at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana. ■ Robert Forsythe has been appointed dean of the Wayne State University School of Business Administration in Detroit, Michigan. Forsythe was formerly dean of the busi- ness school at the University of South Florida. ■ Venky Venkatachalam has been named dean of the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. He most recently served as professor and associate dean at the Peter T. Paul College of Busi- ness and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. ■ Thomas Erekson is the new dean of the College of Business and Technology at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. Erekson, who has served as the dean of the College of Business and Tech- nology at Western Illinois Uni- versity since 2006, succeeds Robert Rogow, who retired. ■ Gary Insch has taken his new post as dean of the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Insch previ- ously served as associate dean for graduate programs and associate professor of management at West Virginia University in Morgantown. ■ Denise Rotondo is the new dean of the School of Busi- ness at the State University of New York in Geneseo. She previously was dean of busi- ness and professor of man- agement at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. ■ Margaret L. Williams has been named dean of the University of North Dakota's College of Business and Pub- lic Administration in Grand Forks. She was most recently interim dean and professor of management at the School of Business at Wayne State Uni- versity in Detroit, Michigan. ■ On September 1, Blaize Horner Reich became the new dean of the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Reich, the school's RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation, takes over from Daniel Shapiro, who is completing his five-year term. ■ Professor emeritus and BB&T Scholar of Econom- ics Bobby McCormick has become interim dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clem- son University in South Caro- lina. McCormick will succeed Charles Watt, who will be the founding director of the Watt Family Innovation Center, cur- rently under construction. ■ Thomas Froehlicher is now director general of KEDGE Business School in Marseille and Bordeaux, France, and other locations. Froehlicher most recently was director general and dean of HEC Liège. SHORT TAKES