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College of Business Timeline |
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| 1910 |
Food Administration & Home Economics | |
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| 1923 |
Retailing Department | |
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| 1952 | Acquired McKechnie-Lunger School of Commerce |
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| 1954 |
Division of Business | |
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| 1960 | Edwina Hogadone named Dean | |
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| 1960 | College of Business Endowed | |
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| 1960 |
Division of Business, School of Retailing, School of Food Administration Combined into School of Business Administration | |
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| 1961 |
School of Retailing Founded | |
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| 1968 |
Move from Downtown to Henrietta campus |
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| 1968 |
Center for Management Study | |
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| 1968 |
Start of MBA program
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| 1970 | Jerry Young named Dean | |
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| 1972 | Ed Johnson named Dean | |
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| 1977 | First Endowed Chair in COB: J. Warren McClure Research Professorship in Marketing | |
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| 1979 |
School of Food and Hotel Administration to CAST | |
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| 1979 |
School of Retailing to Marketing |
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| 1979 | Dale Gibson named Interim Dean | |
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| 1980 | Walter McCanna named Dean | |
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| 1982 |
Move from Eastman to Lowenthal | |
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| 1983 | Retailing merged with Marketing | |
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| 1988 |
AACSB Accreditation | |
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| 1990 | US Business School in Prague | |
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| 1990 |
Richard Rosett named Dean | |
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| 1992-2001 |
USA Today Quality Award | |
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| 1993 |
Executive MBA Program |
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| 1995 | William Nowlin named Interim Dean | |
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| 1997 | Lynn Pankoff named Dean | |
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| 1998 | Tom Hopkins named Dean | |
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| 1996, 2001-2003 |
Us News & World Report’s Top 50 Ranking | |
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