Changing Gears

The Associate Dean, Faculty, oversees all aspects of the hiring, renewal and promotion of faculty and also assists professors in achieving their career objectives. Equally crucial is the assignment of teaching responsibilities for all academic courses, taking into account professors’ areas of expertise and experience.

Preferred Mode of Transportation 1962 Triumph (TR-4) 1995 Harley-Davidson 883 Sportster Academic Cred BMath’74 (Waterloo), MBA’77 (York), PhD’85 (Minnesota) Specialty: Information Technology Management BBA’86 and PhD’96 (Iowa) Specialty: Accounting QSB Track Record

• Arrives as Associate Professor, 1986
• Promoted to Full Professor, 1993
• Appointed Associate Dean (Faculty) 2003

• Arrives as Assistant Professor, 1996
• Promoted to Associate Professor, 2003
• Appointed Associate Dean (Faculty) effective July 1, 2012

What’s next? A return to full-time teaching and research in Information Technology Management at QSB, and continuation of his position as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
And having more time to enjoy driving and tinkering with his TR-4. Balancing her role as Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting with extra- curricular interests that include tending to her family’s hobby farm, which boasts six llamas, one donkey, numerous chickens and a menagerie of house pets.