Alison Davis-Blake made history back in 2006 when she was named the first female dean of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Today, she made history again, with the announcement that she’ll be the first woman to take on the deanship at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, effective Aug. 22, the school said today in a release.
Davis-Blake will be taking over for Robert Dolan, who has been at the school since 2001 and will be stepping down as dean on June 30. The Ross School (Ross Full-Time MBA Profile) is ranked number seven in our 2010 ranking of full-time MBA programs.
Blake has spent the last five years as dean of the Carlson School (Carlson Full-Time MBA Profile), where she was in charge of both the undergraduate and graduate business programs. She is credited with improving the Carlson School’s national reputation and global footprint, helping the school increase its undergraduate enrollment, breaking fundraising records and hiring more faculty, according to a University of Minnesota press release.
Blake got her start as a professor in 1990 and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming chair of the management department and a senior associate dean at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business (McCombs Full-Time MBA Profile) before coming to the Carlson School.
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