{"id":1533,"date":"2009-12-10T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2009-12-13T01:24:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T09:24:01","slug":"chicago-booth-dean-announces-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/chicago-booth-dean-announces-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Booth Dean Announces Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobooth.edu\/news\/snyderannouncement.aspx\">The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Edward A. Snyder announced that he will end his tenure as dean<\/a> at the conclusion of his current term on June 30, 2010. In a gracious letter to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/chicago.aspx\">Chicago<\/a> community he pays tribute to David Booth and the people in the Booth administration with whom he works most closely. In explaining his decision, he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"By way of background, I am in my ninth year as Dean. \u00a0Since World War II, no Dean of the school has served more than two five-year terms. \u00a0No surprise to you, I understand that the option to deviate from standard practice is valuable. \u00a0However, given the strong state of our school and what we have accomplished, I believe now is the right time for the school to search for its next Dean. \u00a0On the personal side, I look forward to taking some time to (a) reflect on the challenges facing management education, (b) analyze some major public policy issues, and (c) to consider my future.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/HarvardHBS.aspx\">Harvard Business School<\/a> <a title=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/acceptedcom_blog\/2009\/12\/2\/hbs-news-dean-light-to-retire-directors-update.html\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/acceptedcom_blog\/2009\/12\/2\/hbs-news-dean-light-to-retire-directors-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Jay Light also recently announced his decision to stop down<\/a> this summer.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/aboutus\/editors.aspx?editorid=1\">Linda Abraham<\/a>, President and Founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\">Accepted.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Edward A. Snyder announced that he will end his tenure as dean at the conclusion of his current term on June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-current-events","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}