Two finalists for the deanship of the Eller College of Business and Public Administration visit campus this week, where they will meet with students, faculty and community members to discuss the future of the college.
V. Vance Roley, associate dean for academic and faculty affairs at the University of Washington, will visit today and tomorrow, and Alison E. Barber, senior associate dean at Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business, will visit Thursday and Friday.
Community members are welcome to attend open forums with each candidate. Roley will conduct a forum from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. tomorrow in Room 208 of McClelland Hall. Barber's forum takes place from 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Thursday in the same room.
The winning candidate will take over for Mark Zupan, who initiated a $100 million campaign for the college and implemented a $500 undergraduate program fee during his six years at the college's helm. Zupan left at the end of last year to take over the business administration school at the University of Rochester, in New York.
The college is ranked 35th in the country in a U.S. News and World Report survey released this month. The management information systems program within the college is ranked fourth, and the entrepreneurship program is ranked 13th.