 Howard
Frank has announced that he will step down as dean of the
Smith School at the end of the current academic year. Frank
will leave his post June 30, 2008, to begin a sabbatical and
will return to the Smith School as professor of management
sciences in the fall of 2009.
Under Frank’s leadership, the school’s stature has risen
dramatically. One year after he arrived in 1997, the College
of Business and Management became the Robert H. Smith School
of Business when it received a $15 million naming gift. The
school’s endowment has grown from just $6 million in 1997 to
more than $50 million today, and annual revenues have
quadrupled to more than $60 million. Frank led the makeover
of the school’s curriculum and research agenda, integrating
studies in technology, entrepreneurship and globalization
with the core business disciplines. The size of the school’s
faculty has nearly doubled, with new hires drawn from
premier research institutions around the world. The school
has established numerous centers for excellence and research
laboratories, and is now recognized worldwide for its
business research.
“Dean Frank came to Maryland with extraordinary
accomplishments in business, government and academe. He
created a technology-savvy business school to lead in
entrepreneurship and globalized business education,” said
University of Maryland President C. D. (Dan) Mote, Jr.
“Howard’s focuses on undergraduate education and research
are both unusual and highly successful. The remarkable and
varied transformations in the Smith School over the past
decade clearly are a credit to his leadership,” said Mote.
The university launched a worldwide search for a new dean
last fall. More information may be found on the Web site at
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/admin. |
