UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 24, Page 2
March 14, 1996
Search committee at work to select new B&E dean

     More than 130 applications and nominations have been received for
the deanship of the College of Business and Economics, according to
search committee chairperson Stuart L. Cooper, H. Rodney Sharp
Professor of Chemical Engineering and dean of the College of
Engineering.
     The search was announced last year, when Kenneth R. Biederman,
dean since 1990 of the University's second largest college, decided to
return to the classroom this July. The search committee spent the last
month narrowing the list to 10 finalists, who are being interviewed
off campus.
     Finalists from that round of interviews will be invited for two-
day visits to the campus next month.
     "The candidates come from an outstanding pool of scholars and are
men and women of outstanding accomplishment," Cooper said. "We hope to
have a new dean join the College of Business and Economics on July 1."
     Other members of the search committee are Robert B. Denhardt,
Charles P. Messick Professor of Urban Affairs and Public Policy;
Mitchell A. Fields, associate professor of finance; Joan S. Gardner,
vice president of management resources at the DuPont Co.; Christine
Kydd, associate professor of business administration; Kenneth A.
Lewis, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics; E. Kent St. Pierre,
Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor and chairperson of the Department of
Accounting; Lance L. Weaver, senior vice chairman and chief
administrative officer of MBNA America; and Terry M. Whittaker,
assistant dean of the College of Business and Economics and director
of its Fortune 2000 Program. Consultants to the search committee are
Hal Erskine, executive vice president, and Thomas A. Graves Jr.,
executive education consultant, both at MBNA America.
     As chief administrative office of the college, the dean reports
directly to the provost and provides leadership to the college's
academic, research and service programs.
     During Biederman's tenure as dean, the college developed plans
for a new business and economics building, expanded its MBA program to
include an Executive MBA program and on-site MBA programs at DuPont
and MBNA, initiated a Ph.D. program in economics, secured funding from
area financial institutions for the Fortune 2000 Program to assist
minority students, adopted a strategic plan, established four named
professorships and increased the role of the college's alumni board.