Interviews set for business dean candidates

Three candidates for the dean of the College of Business and Industry have been recommended by the search committee and invited to campus for interviews.

According to committee chair William Graves, the first candidate scheduled is Dr. Sara Freedman, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston. She will interview April 15 and 16.

Dr. Roy D. Howell Jr., interim dean of the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, will interview April 20 and 21.

The third candidate, Dr. Steve Bolander, chair of the Department of Management and former interim dean of the College of Business at Colorado State University in Fort Collins will interview April 22 and 23.

Freedman has served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston since 1995. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Boston University and her doctorate in organizational behavior from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Freedman joined the University of Houston faculty in 1976. She recently hosted the site visit and successful AACSB reaccreditation for the college.

At Houston, she recruited 14 new tenure track positions to join the college. In addition, she established the Elizabeth Rockwell Career Services Center in 1997 to provide career assistance to College of Business Administration students seeking internships, part-time positions and full-time positions related to their career objectives. She also raised $400,000 for scholarships in the College of Business Administration 1997-1998.

Freedman is a member of the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.

Howell has served as professor of marketing and interim dean of the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech since September 1997, and as coordinator, Marketing Area, since 1993. He joined the Texas Tech faculty in 1982 as an associate professor of marketing. From 1979 to 1982, Howell was on the faculty of the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, where he was an assistant professor of business administration. He served as an assistant professor of marketing and management at Southwest Missouri State University 1974-1978. He also taught in Italy, Norway and at the University of Hawaii-Manoa as a visiting professor.

He is the project director of a $758,000 research contract with the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. In 1997 he received the "Jagdish Set Award" from the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.

Howell received his master's and bachelor's degrees from Eastern New Mexico University and his doctorate in marketing from the University of Arkansas.

Bolander joined the Colorado State University College of Business in 1972. As interim dean, he led the revitalization of the Colorado State Denver-based Executive MBA program, expanded the college's distance education program and established the Product Realization Institute for Strategic Technologies, an interdisciplinary institute with four other colleges at Colorado State and industries such as Storage Tek, Hewlett Packard, Symbois Logic, and Kodak.

He raised $4 million to add a technology and classroom wing for Rockwell Hall which was renovated under his leadership.

In addition to his employment in academia, Bolander has worked as a manager for Rockwell International/ Rocky Flats Plant.

Bolander received his bachelor's in chemistry from Iowa Wesleyan College, his master's from the University of Colorado, and his doctorate from Kent State University.