UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 3, Page 11
September 19, 1991
Butkiewicz named associate dean

     After a nation wide search that began last fall, James L.
Butkiewicz has been named associate dean of the College of Business
and Economics.
     Butkiewicz, an associate professor of economics, said he is
pleased to have been selected as associate dean, a position which
he also held between 1984 and 1988. During that term, he was
associate dean in a college program that rotates faculty through
the position to give professors administrative experience.
     Currently, Jackson "Jeff" Gillespie, an associate professor of
accounting, serves as associate dean in the college's rotating
program.
     Prior to his appointment as associate dean on Aug.1,
Butkiewicz had served as acting associate dean since February. In
his new position, according to Dean Kenneth R. Biederman,
Butkiewicz will gradually assume responsibility for the day-to-day
management of the internal affairs of the College of Business and
Economics.
     Biederman said Butkiewicz displayed "excellent qualifications"
for the position of associate dean during his years as a rotating
associate dean and as chairperson of the College of Business and
Economics' Long-Range Planning Committee.
     Butkiewicz said the University is moving toward a business
college structure similar to major business schools and large
universities, with the dean serving a primarily external role,
attempting to improve alumni relations and strengthen connections
to the business community.
     Butkiewicz, who says he is an avid basketball player and an
enthusiastic skier, received a doctorate in economics from the
University of Virginia, where he taught before joining the
University of Delaware faculty in 1976. The recipient of the
Department of Economics' excellence in teaching award for 1989, he
is author of many papers on macroeconomic issues.
                                        - Stephen Steenkamer