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Campus input sought in search for management dean

By SUE WUETCHER

Published October 15, 2015 This content is archived.

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The committee leading the search for a new dean for the School of Management has scheduled three listening sessions within the next week to gather input from the university community on campus interests and priorities for the search.

The sessions will be held from 1-2 p.m. Oct. 16 in 106 Jacobs Management Center — School of Management faculty only — and from 3:45-4:45 p.m. on Oct. 19 and Oct. 21 in 102 Alfiero Center, which adjoins Jacobs. The sessions in Alfiero are open to all.

The search committee, chaired by Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is seeking a successor to Arjang Assad, who stepped down as dean on July 1 to become dean at the Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh.

Paul E. Tesluk, Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizational Behavior, has been serving as interim dean.

Folks notes that those who cannot attend a listening session but want to provide feedback to the search committee may do so at an online survey site. All information provided is confidential, she says.

A search website is now active and contains information on the search process, committee, communications and procedures for applications and nominations, she adds.

In addition to Folks, members of the search committee are School of Management faculty members Brian Becker, senior associate dean and professor of organization and human resources; Ann Cohen, clinical associate professor of accounting and law; Sanjukta Das Smith, associate professor of management science and systems; Feng Gu, associate professor of accounting and law; Charles Lindsey, associate professor of marketing; and Nallan Suresh, UB Distinguished Professor and chair, Department of Operations Management and Strategy; Management staff member Gwen Appelbaum, assistant dean, Career Resource Center; and MBA student Marna Metcalf.

Other committee members are Peter Biehl, professor and chair, Department of Anthropology; Todd Brown, professor, UB Law School; Margarita Dubocovich, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and senior associate dean for inclusion and cultural enhancement, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Richard Ferranti, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Rich Products Corp., and chair, School of Management Dean’s Advisory Council; and A. Scott Weber, senior vice provost for academic affairs.

UB also has hired the consulting form of Isaacson, Miller to assist the search committee.

The committee expects the search to conclude in the spring semester, with the new dean in place before the start of the 2016-17 academic year.