Brock University Interim President Tom Traves announced today that Andrew Gaudes will become the next Dean of Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business.<\/p>\n
Gaudes is currently at the University of Regina, where since 2012 he has been Dean of the Paul J. Hill School of Business and the Kenneth Levene Graduate School of Business.<\/p>\n
The Brock appointment takes effect on July 1, and today\u2019s announcement concludes a seven-month search which shortlisted four finalist candidates for the Goodman role.<\/p>\n
Prior to his position at U Regina, Gaudes was at the University of New Brunswick from 2003-2012, where he served at various times as Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Dean for International Programs in the Faculty of Business Administration.<\/p>\n
Before becoming an academic, Gaudes worked in the fields of architecture and interior design, having earned undergraduate (1987) and master\u2019s (1998) degrees in architecture from the University of Manitoba. He then returned to U of M and in 2005 received his PhD in Management from the I.H. Asper School of Business.<\/p>\n
A specialist in organizational theory, Gaudes has published widely in his field, including nearly two dozen peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and conference papers. He has also authored or co-authored five books and contributed chapters or sections for numerous others.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very <\/span>humbled to be offered this opportunity to become part of<\/span>\u00a0Brock,\u201d said Gaudes. \u201c<\/span>I have been very fortunate to have worked with great people in academics and industry, which has<\/span>\u00a0prepared me for this next <\/span>exciting\u00a0<\/span>chapter <\/span>in working<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>towards\u00a0the success of students<\/span> at the Goodman School of Business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Traves today also expressed his \u201cdeep appreciation for the leadership and service of Dr. Barry Wright,\u201d who has served as Interim Dean of Goodman since December 2015.<\/p>\n In making the announcement, Traves noted that Gaudes\u2019 reappointment to a second term as Dean in Regina indicates strength in leadership as well as business strategy.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m delighted that Dr. Gaudes has agreed to join us as Dean of the Goodman School of Business,\u201d said Traves. \u201cBrock is very fortunate to attract such an experienced academic leader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new Dean of the Goodman School of Business will be coming to Brock from the University of Regina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3319,4052,1,4],"tags":[5144,594,4526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44362,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354\/revisions\/44362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}