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New business dean starts work July 1 BOWLING GREEN, O. -- An academic and administrator with strong roots in the Midwest and the national business community has
been chosen as the next dean of the College of Business Administration at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Robert O. Edmister,
currently the Frank R. Day/MBA Chair of Banking and a professor of finance in the School of Business Administration at the
University of Mississippi, will begin his duties at BGSU July 1. Edmister has also been director of the Mississippi Bankers
Association School of Banking since 1995 and president of the Eastern Finance Association since 2002.
He replaces Dr. James Sullivan, who is returning to the faculty.
Listed in the Harvard Business School Press International Directory of Business and Management Scholars since 1995, Edmister
has taught at three doctoral-granting universities and is a former practicing banker and an executive appointee to two federal
bank regulatory agencies in Washington, D.C. "
I am excited about returning to my home state of Ohio," Edmister said. "This is an opportunity to bring my experience at major
universities in other states back to my native state. To move to Bowling Green is a special honor because of its long heritage
of scholastic achievement and personal value development. I look forward to working with the College of Business Administration's
students, alumni and faculty to further develop its fine reputation and build dynamic programs responsive to business needs
of the future."
Edmister received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1970, his MBA from the University of Michigan in 1965, and his B.S.
degree from Miami University of Ohio in 1963. He has held his current positions at the University of Mississippi since 2001.
Previously he was MS Bankers Chair of Banking from 1995-2001. He served as the Mississippi League of Savings Institutions
Chairholder from 1989-1995, and was coordinator of the finance faculty from 1998-2000.
He has also taught at the University of Maryland, where he was chairman of the finance faculty in the College of Business
and Management from 1974-89, and at Purdue University, where he was an assistant professor of finance in the Krannert School
of Industrial Administration from 1970-74. He was a visiting scholar in the Division of Banking Research and Economic Analysis
in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of the Treasury, in 1981, and was AACSB-Sears-Roebuck Faculty
Fellow in the Division of Bank Supervision for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1972.
The author of numerous books, book chapters, book reviews and articles in professional journals, he is a reviewer for the
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Economics and Business, the Journal of Finance, the Journal
of Accounting and Public Policy, the Journal of Financial Research and The Financial Review, Financial Management and Financial
Analyst's Journal.
(Posted June 04, 2003 )
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