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Officials at the expect to complet e their search within weeks and have a dean in place by the starft of thefall semester. “The three candidates who were brought to campus and who were interviewede are allstrong candidates,” said Gary chairman of the UMKC Faculty Senate and membedr of the Bloch School dean search “Each one has his or her own and I think the next step is for the facult to decide what is the most important at this point in the developmenft of the school.
” Teng-Kee Tan, director of the at in was the first candidate to come to UMKC for an Tan served in various roles for multinational companies in Europe and the Uniterd States, including a stint with For the past nine he has worked in business and entrepreneurshilp education. Tan helped raise the equivalentof $40.8 millionj to finance initiatives and programs for his university’ s entrepreneurship and innovation center in Steven Currall, vice dean of enterprise at , has international experiencd and hometown ties. A Kansas City Currall previously was a founding directodr of the and Entrepreneurshipat .
The allianc helped launch more than 160 new technologhy startup companies and raise d morethan $300 million in equity At University College London, Currall said he receivedf the equivalent of $16.8 million in Susan Gilbert, executive director and associate dean of MBA programs at , was the most recent interviewee at UMKC, having arrived in Kansas City on Feb. 23. A manager in ’ds finance and marketing departments early on in her Gilbert later became associate deanof ’sd evening MBA program. Enrollment in that university’ws evening MBA program increased 90 percent in two years while she oversawthe program.
One of the three probably will be pickes to succeedHomer Erekson, who left UMKC on June 30 to becomd dean of the at . Erekson’s successor will lead a professional school that has flirted with worldwide businessschookl rankings. In 2007, the ranked the Bloc School’s executive MBA program No. 36 among U.S. universities, but the school was absenty from the2008 rankings. It also faces budget a dropping endowment, and a tenuous awareness and financial connectiobn to the Kansas Citybusinesse community.
Gail Hackett, provost at said that her expectatio of a new dean is to keep the school moving on an upward trajectory but that she woulc like to see progress hastebn for theBloch School. “Some of what we are lookinhg for isthat acceleration,” Hackett said. “I think we’rde already doing the things weneed to.” Drue a lawyer who serves on the , said the school wouldx do well to raiswe its profile in the localk business community. “I would say that it’s done OK. I don’t thinmk it’s been an exceptional job by any measure, but it’ds done OK,” Jennings said.
“I don’ t think it’s fallen off the radar screen of thebusinesa community.” Hackett said she’s “extremely impressed” at the strength of the school’s relationshipo with the business communityy but acknowledged that “you alwayw hope for more, of course.” The Bloch Schookl would be helped by a higher faculty and student The school’s enrollment of 1,559 in the fall semester was dwarfed by the 6,000 at the at the . “We’rd never going to be the size of some of the hugestatwe land-grant universities,” Hackett said.
“UMKC needs to grow its undergraduate enrollment, and we’re looking to the Bloc School for some modest growth.”