Four candidates for the position of dean of the University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics will visit the campus and participate in town hall meetings open to the University community beginning Wednesday, May 3.

Each presentation will be held from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., with town halls on Wednesday, May 3; Wednesday, May 10, Monday, May 15; and Tuesday, May 23, scheduled in the Trabant Theatre. Details will be available the Leadership Opportunities page on the Office of the Provost’s website.

At these forums, each candidate will present their vision for the college, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Biographical information about each candidate will be available to members of the UD community 24 hours in advance of their presentation on the Leadership Opportunities page. Recordings of each session will also be posted to the Leadership Opportunities page in the days following the town hall.

Reporting directly to the provost, the dean is a key member of the University’s senior administrative team and is responsible for leadership of the college, including the development, operation and sustained excellence of all academic programs across its five academic departments (Accounting and MIS, Business Administration, Economics, Finance and Hospitality and Sport Business Management); centers and institutes.

Co-chairing the search advisory committee for the next dean are Laura Field, who is the Donald J. Puglisi Professor of Finance, and Fabrice Veron, dean of the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment.

Members of the committee are

Carlos Asarta, James B. O’Neill Director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship and professor of economics;

Julianna Butler, associate professor of economics;

Bintong Chen, director of the Institute for Financial Services Analytics and professor of operations management;

• John D’Arcy, professor of management information systems;
• Martin D. Heintzelman, professor and chairperson of the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics;
• Jennifer Joe, Whitney Family Professor of Accounting and Cohen Family Lerner Director of Diversity;
• Oliva Kelly-Quigley, a graduate student in the Lerner College;
• Sheryl Kline, deputy dean of the Lerner College and Aramark Chaired Professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management;
• Regan Landrigan, an Honors undergraduate student in the Lerner College;
• Debra Hess Norris, chairperson of the Department of Art Conservation, Unidel Henry Franics du Pont Chair of Art Conservation and UD trustee;
• Mary Remmler, senior vice president and chief financial officer;
• Matt Robinson, professor of sport management and area head of the sport management program in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management;
• Anu Sivaraman, assistant professor of marketing and chief diversity advocate in the Lerner College;
• Michael Vaughan, vice provost for equity; and
• Fei Xie, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Finance and Iannaccone Faculty Fellow.

Assisting with the search is the consulting firm of Education Executives, LLC, which specializes in searches for higher education leadership.

Bruce Weber, who has served as the dean of the college since 2011, will step down at the conclusion of the current academic year and, effective July 17, will become the Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York.