UConn Business School Dean Christopher Earley will be leaving his position to take a simliar job at Purdue University.
The Indiana-based school said Earley is expected to start this fall as dean of the Krannert School of Management.
Earley has been dean of the UConn business school since January 2008. Prior to that, he was dean of the National University of Singapore Business School, chair of organizational behavior at London Business School in England, and Randall L. Tobias Chair of Global Leadership at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
A UConn spokesman told the Associated Press they do not yet know when Earley’s spot will be filled, but that a search committee is expected to be appointed.
The news of Earley’s departure is not all that surprising. Earley was rumored earlier this year to be a frontrunner for the dean postion at Purdue, so he has been actively looking for a new postion.
Earley also came under criticism recently at UConn as being one of the main drivers behind General Electric ending its popular edgelab program with the business school.
