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Niemi To Step Down as SMU’s Cox School Dean

Longtime business-school leader will keep teaching after leaving dean's post in May 2017.
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Al Niemi
Al Niemi

Al Niemi, who’s been dean of Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business since 1997, plans to step down from that position in May 2017 to focus on teaching full-time. SMU’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, Steven C. Currall, is working to create a search committee to identify Niemi’s successor.

In a letter announcing the development, Currall said Niemi had “increased the school’s national and international visibility,” citing high rankings for the school’s BBA, full-time MBA, Professional MBA and Executive MBA programs in such publications as Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist and U.S. News & World Report. The letter also called Niemi an “effective fundraiser” who had increased the school’s endowment from $78 million to more than $200 million.

Niemi will remain in his faculty position—he holds the William O’Neil Chair in Global Markets and Freedom—after retiring as dean. He currently teaches both a graduate and an undergraduate course called “Evolution of American Capitalism” three days a week. He also teaches a certificate program in American capitalism for non-credit in the winter, and the same program at the SMU-in-Taos (N.M.) campus in the summer.

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