Syracuse University names new dean of Whitman School of Management

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse University has selected Eugene (Gene) Anderson as the new dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Anderson is currently working as a professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business Administration, Syracuse said in a news release.

He’ll assume his new role July 1.

Syracuse describes Anderson as a “results-driven, accomplished business education leader with a record of innovating new programs, increasing graduate student enrollment, and building a diversely talented team of faculty.”

“Gene’s appointment represents the beginning of the next chapter in the life of the Whitman School,” Michele Wheatly, vice chancellor and provost of Syracuse University, said in its release. “His vast achievements as an administrator; his ability to attract, recruit and retain high-achieving students and faculty and his innovative approach to assessing the marketplace to create new academic programs that align with economic trends are just a few of the many reasons he is the ideal individual for this role.”

Anderson, who recently concluded a five-year stint as dean of Miami’s School of Business Administration, said he was attracted to the Whitman School dean position because of the school’s “impressive growth trajectory and the many opportunities for further success,” according to the Syracuse news release.

His appointment follows a search process that began last fall. The search committee included students, faculty, staff, and alumni

Anderson succeeds Kenneth Kavajecz, who was charged with a 3rd degree misdemeanor count of patronizing a prostitute, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department said in September 2016. He was among eight men arrested following a prostitution sting in the town of Salina.

Syracuse had released a statement a few days earlier indicating that Kavajecz was no longer dean of the Whitman School.

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