In a post to the Kellogg website last week, Janice Eberly, chair of the committee charged with nominating a new candidate to serve as dean of the school, shared details about the global search currently underway. At present, the 12-member committee is conducting forums with the extended Kellogg community in an effort to determine the qualities the new dean must possess. It has not yet begun to look at individual candidates.
“The entire community at Kellogg has a stake in the leadership of the school,” Eberly said. “We have a community that has a lot to bring to the search.”
With this in mind, the committee has reached out to tens of thousands of current students and alumni through e-mail, hosted forums on the Chicago and Evanston campuses with full-time and part-time students and conducted a forum with Kellogg’s global executive MBA students. It also has sent out a community email seeking candidate nominations and input on desired qualities for a new dean.
The search committee includes students, faculty, alumni and staff, which Eberly believes has strengthened the search process. “Each of their points of view gives us a different perspective on the role of the dean within the school,” she says. The committee expects to propose candidates for the position to Northwestern University Provost Daniel Linzer and President Morton Schapiro by early 2010.
Sunil Chopra, the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management, has been named to serve as interim dean until a new dean is found. He served as senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching from 2006-09. Dean Dipak Jain, whose leadership guided Kellogg for the past 10 years, stepped down in September to return to teaching.
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