Business Dean Mitchell Koza Announces Return to the Faculty (Nov. 19, 2008)

To the Campus Community:

Dean Mitchell Koza, who has served for three successful years as Dean of the School of Business, has informed me of his decision to return to the faculty as of January 1, 2009.

Under Dean Koza's leadership, the School of Business has experienced strategic growth in enrollment, programs, and new faculty, launching a comprehensive four-year undergraduate program and enhancing its programs at Brookdale and Atlantic Cape Community Colleges; creating a human resource management major for undergraduates; and sharpening the MBA program's focus on serving working professionals who wish to attend graduate school on a part-time basis. The Rutgers Institute of Management and Executive Development has delivered executive education programs for such major corporations as Cisco Systems, Campbell Soup, Lockheed Martin, and Graybar. Dean Koza has also established a strategic alliance with Audencia, the Nantes School of Management in France, and successfully extended several outreach programs, including BizEd, the Quarterly Business Outlook (now viewable on Comcast on Demand), the Executive Breakfast Series, and student internships. In addition, Dean Koza recruited and welcomed several new members to the Executive Advisory Committee, while also creating a committee structure to increase and improve involvement of the business leaders in the academic and co-curricular life of the school. Dean Koza's work in the area of development has resulted in a number of major gifts, including four individual gifts in the last year, all over $100,000 and the largest private gifts in the 20-year history of the school. The Family Business Forum Consortium has attracted two sponsors (TD Bank and Archer & Greiner).

Dean Koza has delivered several keynote addresses and been recognized with awards or notations for several papers. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey and the Quality of Markets Committee of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange; served on local advisory boards; served as committee member for the Best Paper Prize for the Strategic Management Society and NJBIZ awards to the New Jersey business community (NJBIZ has located their Hall of Fame to the Business School); and served on three reaccreditation visiting committees for the AACSB. He writes and delivers a weekly business report for WHYY-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Philadelphia.

Within the coming weeks, I will announce a plan for transitional leadership, with a national search for a new dean to be launched next year, under a new chancellor.

President McCormick and I are grateful to Dean Koza for his dedicated service and for all that the School of Business has achieved under his leadership. Please join me in congratulating him on his accomplishments and wishing him well as he returns full-time to research and teaching.

Margaret Marsh

Interim Chancellor