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STARKVILLE, Miss.--An Indiana university administrator is the new dean of Mississippi State's College of Business and Industry.
Lynne Richardson, dean of the Miller College of Business at Ball State University in Muncie, will begin work at MSU Aug. 1. Her appointment was approved earlier this week by the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning.
Richardson received a master's degree in business administration in 1983 and a doctorate in marketing in 1989, both from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her bachelor's in marketing was completed in 1980 from the University of Montevallo (Ala.).
Before serving as BSU business dean, Richardson was associate dean and professor at the UAB.
She said she looks forward to working with the faculty, staff and students of MSU's business college, one of the South's oldest.
"The support of the university administration for the COBI also was critical in my decision making, as was the enthusiasm expressed by alumni and friends of the college," Richardson said. "I hope my experiences as dean of the Miller College of Business at Ball State will help us determine and then achieve our goals at Mississippi State."
Richardson currently serves as a member of the board of directors for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the board of governors for Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society. She has also served as president of the Birmingham American Marketing Association.
Her teaching and research specialties include leadership, professional selling and channels of distribution.
Interim dean Dan Hollingsworth will continue to serve in the position until August.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Hollingsworth at (662) 325-2580 or dhollingsworth@cobilan.msstate.edu.