3/17/97

ATHENS, Ohio -- The search committee for a new Ohio University College of Business dean has invited four candidates to visit the Athens campus for two days of interviews and open forums, according to Ted Compton, professor of accounting and chair of the committee.

"It's been a long search and it's a very tight market for business school deans," Compton said. "We have been able to attract four strong candidates."

Lee Dahringer, dean of Butler University College of Business Administration, Indianapolis, will be on campus Tuesday and Wednesday (March 17-18). He will give a short presentation and take questions at two open forums in 104 Copeland Hall, 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Wednesday.

Dahringer completed a B.S. degree at Western Kentucky University, an M.B.A. at the University of Missouri and a D.B.A. at the University of Colorado. He has been a professor of marketing and dean at Butler since 1993.

Glenn Corlett, a management consultant from Chagrin Falls, will be on campus Thursday and Friday (March 20-21). He will participate in open forums from 10:30 a.m. to noon Thursday in 114 Copeland Hall and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday in 104 Copeland Hall.

Corlett completed a bachelor's degree in business administration at Ohio University and a J.D. at Ohio State University. Corlett was executive vice president and chief operating officer for the N.W. Ayer & Partners from 1993 to 1996 and chief financial officer of the company from 1990 to 1995.

Prior to joining Ayer, Corlett had been with Price Waterhouse since 1971 where he held a succession of positions, including partner-in-charge of mergers and acquisitions from 1988 to 1990.

Corlett has been an Ohio University Foundation emeriti trustee since 1994 and is a former president of the Ohio University Alumni Association. He received the university's Alumni Medal of Merit in 1991.

Two other candidates, Milton Blood and Lucy Reuben, will visit campus the week of March 31, but their schedules have not yet been arranged.

Blood completed a B.S. in psychology at the Centre College of Kentucky and an M.A. and Ph.D. in industrial psychology at the University of Illinois. Blood has been managing director and director of accreditation for the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business since 1983. From 1974 to 1983 Blood was a faculty member and associate dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management. He was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley from 1968 to 1974.

Reuben has been dean of the School of Business at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C., since 1995. A graduate of Oberlin College, where she completed an A.B. in economics, Reuben completed and M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Michigan.

Reuben was an associate professor of finance at Florida A&M University from 1989 to 1995 and a visiting associate professor of finance at George Mason University from 1986 to 1988.

Former dean John Stinson, a professor of management systems, has been serving as interim dean since July 1. The committee anticipates having a new dean on the job by July, Compton said.