Interim leadership team named for the Maine Business School
This spring semester, the reorganized Maine Business School (MBS) at the University of Maine will have an interim leadership team.
MBS Dean Ivan Manev has taken administrative leave to re-engage with his scholarship and take a well-deserved break from administrative duties, according to Jeffrey Hecker, UMaine executive vice president for academic affairs and provost. Administrative and leadership responsibilities will be handled by Nic Erhardt, interim dean of the Undergraduate School of Business, and James Simpson, interim dean of the Graduate School of Business.
Erhardt, associate professor of management, has been serving as MBS associate dean. Simpson is distinguished professor emeritus and principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville College of Business. In 2014–15, Simpson served as interim dean of the School of Business at Ithaca College.
Their appointments are in effect through June 30, 2018.
“I would like to express my gratitude to Ivan Manev for his outstanding work as dean of the Maine Business School,” Hecker says. “With Ivan’s leadership, undergraduate enrollment has boomed, the downward trend in graduate enrollment was reversed, the school was successfully reaccredited, and significant gifts to MBS were secured. I hope the UMaine community will join me in thanking him for his service.”