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Business dean search committee formed

Four local business leaders, two of them WSU alumni, and a business student will join WSU faculty in a nationwide search for a new Barton School of Business dean.

Gerald Graham announced earlier this fall that he would return to full-time teaching July 1, after more than five years at the helm of Kansas’ largest business school.

The four businesspeople are John Ast, operations director and site manager, Symbios Logic; Ron Cornejo, president, Cornejo & Sons Inc.; F. Lynn Markel, executive vice president, finance and administration, Koch Industries; and Betty Vlamis, executive vice president, Pioneer Balloon Co. Markel and Ast are WSU alumni.

The remaining committee members are from WSU: Jeff Bryant, assistant professor, accountancy; Susan Cherches, director, Center for Management Development; Mohammad Dadashzadeh, associate professor of management information systems; Randy Ellsworth, professor and associate dean, College of Education; Manoj Gupta, associate professor and chair, management; Phil Hersch, professor, economics; Charles Martin, professor, marketing and entrepreneurship; and student Collin Stieben.

The committee expects to have its first meeting this month, according to Gupta, who will convene the committee.

— Amy Geiszler-Jones

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