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Headlines SHORT TAKES HORT TAKES NEW APPOINTMENTS n Patrick Harker has been named pres- ident of the University of Delaware in Newark. Harker has been dean of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia since 2000. While at Wharton, Harker led more than 300 faculty members and 4,600 students, while overseeing a fund-raising campaign that netted $450 million in five years. Harker replaces David Roselle, who retires in May after 17 years as president. n Jorge Talavera has been named pres- ident of ESAN University in Lima, Peru. He previously held positions at the Adolfo Ibañez University in Chile and the San Ignacio de Loyola University in Peru. Talavera is also president of CLADEA, the Latin American Council of Manage- ment Schools. n The Community of European Management Schools and Interna- tional Companies (CEMS) has elect- ed Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC School of Management in Paris, as its new chairman. Ramanantsoa takes over from Paul Verhaegen as chair- man of the strategic alliance of 17 European business schools, four non- European academic associate mem- bers, and 56 international companies. n Blair H. Sheppard has been named the new dean of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Dur- ham, North Carolina. The appoint- ment is effective July 1. Sheppard succeeds Douglas Breeden, who 14 BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2007 returns to a full-time faculty position after six years as dean. n Ashok Rao has been named dean of the E. Philip Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. His appointment was effective February 1. n Troy Eggers has been named associate dean for executive education at Columbia Business School in New York City. He has held previous positions as assistant dean and director of administration for the executive MBA program. n Andres Fortino has been named associate provost and dean of the Westchester, New York, campus of Polytechnic University. Fortino was formerly dean of the School of Man- agement at Marist College. n The Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University in University Park has named Michael Rothkopf the next Smeal Chaired Pro- fessor of Supply Chain and Infor- mation Systems and Raghu Garud the new Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Entrepreneurship. n The Reims Man- agement School in France has appointed international wine expert Stephen Charters as the head of its Cham- pagne Chair. n Greg Filbeck has been named profes- sor of finance and the first Samuel P. Black III Professor of Insurance and Risk Management in the Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. HONORS AND AWARDS n James G. Tompkins IV has been cho- sen as a Fulbright Senior Specialist to Greece. Tompkins is a professor at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. He will teach and conduct seminars on writ- ing and researching case studies at the University of the Aegean. n Joseph A. Alutto received an award from China's Ministry of Education and the Asia-Pacific MBA Associa- tion for being a "Prominent Figure to China's MBA Education." Alutto, dean of The Ohio State Universi- ty's Fisher College of Business in Columbus, was recognized for his contribution in developing the first MBA program in China. In 1984, Alutto, then a dean at the State Uni- versity of New York-Buffalo, found- ed the SUNY-Buffalo-China MBA program. The two-year program was established through an agreement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and the State Economic Commission of the People's Repub- lic of China. COLLABORATIONS n Three universities have partnered to establish a governance consor- tium that crosses sectors. The School of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Arizona's Eller Col- lege of Management in Tucson, the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the