- December 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
By SUSAN JONES
Making Pitt Business more of a force in the larger university was on the minds of several people at an open forum Dec. 9 on the search for a new business dean.
Amanda Godley, vice provost for graduate studies, is leading the search committee to replace Arjang Assad, who will transition to faculty on June 30, 2022. Assad has been dean of the Katz Graduate School of Business and undergraduate College of Business Administration since 2015.
The forum, the second of two, will help the committee build a job description. Initial interviews will be conducted confidentially in February and early March. The Pitt Business community will be involved in finalist interviews in mid-March and early April, and Godley said they hope to have the next dean in place during summer 2022. The consulting company Korn Ferry is helping with the search.
Don Moser, professor of business administration in the Department of Accounting, said all the…
