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Home>Mark Zupan to step down as Simon School of Business Dean: MBA News
Mark Zupan to step down as Simon School of Business Dean: MBA News
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Mark Zupan has announced his intention to step down as dean of Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, when his term expires in 2014 when he will have been in the position for ten years.
His decision comes just one day after the president of the University of Rochester, Joel Seligman, released his report assessing the past five years and looking at goals for 2018. In it he highlighted the business school’s need to improve its reputational standing, having fallen slightly down in the pecking order of American business schools in recent times.
One issue that has been raised was the recent difficulties experienced by its MBA graduates in finding employment directly after their program. However, the Simon School of Business moved swiftly to deny that this had held any impact in Zupan’s decision.
University of Rochester President thanks Zupan for legacy he will leave behind
Instead, the University of Rochester’s president released a statement to the Simon School of Business community praising his efforts in reversing the school’s declining MBA program. In it he said, “His legacy is an inspiring one. When he arrived, the Simon School faced a “perfect storm” with a combination of significant declines in MBA and Executive MBA enrollment and a non-sustainable endowment draw. Mark deserves great credit for reversing the fortunes of Simon’s MBA program.”
Central to this is thought to have been his efforts in recruiting industry specialists for the career services office as well as raising US$62m towards a total fundraising goal at Simon of US$85, allowing the school to triple scholarship support it can offer to MBA students.
Mark Zupan himself declared that he wanted to “pass the baton of leadership” in an email addressing the entire Simon community. He is to return to the school as a professor of economics and public policy as well as director of the Bradley Policy Research Center after taking a year’s sabbatical.
Mark Zupan to step down as Simon School of Business Dean: MBA News
By QS Contributor
Updated June 15, 2014 Updated June 15, 2014Mark Zupan has announced his intention to step down as dean of Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, when his term expires in 2014 when he will have been in the position for ten years.
His decision comes just one day after the president of the University of Rochester, Joel Seligman, released his report assessing the past five years and looking at goals for 2018. In it he highlighted the business school’s need to improve its reputational standing, having fallen slightly down in the pecking order of American business schools in recent times.
One issue that has been raised was the recent difficulties experienced by its MBA graduates in finding employment directly after their program. However, the Simon School of Business moved swiftly to deny that this had held any impact in Zupan’s decision.
University of Rochester President thanks Zupan for legacy he will leave behind
Instead, the University of Rochester’s president released a statement to the Simon School of Business community praising his efforts in reversing the school’s declining MBA program. In it he said, “His legacy is an inspiring one. When he arrived, the Simon School faced a “perfect storm” with a combination of significant declines in MBA and Executive MBA enrollment and a non-sustainable endowment draw. Mark deserves great credit for reversing the fortunes of Simon’s MBA program.”
Central to this is thought to have been his efforts in recruiting industry specialists for the career services office as well as raising US$62m towards a total fundraising goal at Simon of US$85, allowing the school to triple scholarship support it can offer to MBA students.
Mark Zupan himself declared that he wanted to “pass the baton of leadership” in an email addressing the entire Simon community. He is to return to the school as a professor of economics and public policy as well as director of the Bradley Policy Research Center after taking a year’s sabbatical.
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This article was originally published in September 2013 . It was last updated in June 2014
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