Second dean of the School of Business candidate to present April 3
LAWRENCE — Lin Nan will be the second dean candidate to give a public presentation on her ideas and strategies for the future of the University of Kansas School of Business.
Nan’s presentation is scheduled for 4-5 p.m. April 3 in Room 1020 of Capitol Federal Hall. In addition, the event will be livestreamed, and the passcode is 800688.
Nan is the Brock Family Chair Professor, senior associate dean of faculty affairs and department head of management at the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
The remaining candidates will be announced approximately two business days before their respective campus visits. Their presentations will also take place 4-5 p.m. in Room 1020 of Capitol Federal Hall on the following dates:
- Candidate 3: April 8
- Candidate 4: April 10.
Members of the KU community are encouraged to attend each presentation and provide feedback to the search committee. Presentation recordings and online feedback forms will remain available on the search page through April 15.
Additional search information, including Nan’s CV, can be found on the search page.
As senior associate dean of faculty affairs, Nan oversees academic policies and procedures, faculty recruiting and retention, faculty promotion and evaluation, faculty awards and recognition, faculty annual reviews, merit and summer support, faculty grievance and school strategies. She serves as the business school’s liaison to the Vice Provost Office for Faculty Affairs.
Nan also heads the management department at Purdue, which includes nine academic areas and 138 full-time faculty members. This involves curriculum and teaching planning, strategic program designing and improvement, and program reviews of the department. Nan is additionally responsible for department and area budgets and expenses, resource allocation, and area head appointments and reviews.
Nan has published numerous research papers in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies and Journal of Management Accounting Research.
She has been recognized for her work and research, including top rankings in accounting research by Brigham Young University, the Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant Award and Purdue’s Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award.
Prior to joining Purdue in 2012, Nan taught at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
She earned her doctorate in accounting from the University of Florida, her master’s degree in economics from West Virginia University and her bachelor’s degree in engineering from Tianjin University in China.
The School of Business Dean search committee includes representatives from faculty, staff, students and alumni and is being led by Ann Brill, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, and Jason Hornberger, vice provost of finance.