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Related Link: IU School of BusinessBy George Vlahakis
Dan R. Dalton has been named interim dean of the Indiana University School of Business. The announcement was made last week by Gerald L. Bepko, vice president for long range planning at IU and IUPUI chancellor.
Dalton, a faculty member in the Business School since 1979, currently serves as its associate dean for academic affairs and is the Samuel and Pauline Glaubinger Professor of management. He will replace John Rau, who is leaving IU at year's end to become president and chief executive officer of Chicago Title and Trust Co. and Chicago Title Insurance Co.
Michael B. Metzger, the Charles M. Hewitt Professor of business law at IU, will assume, in an interim capacity, the associate deanship for academic affairs, a position he also held in 1992-94 and in 1984-87. He has been a member of the IU business faculty since 1972.
Both appointments become effective Jan. 1.
Trevor Brown, dean of the IU School of Journalism, will chair the university committee that will conduct a national search for Rau's permanent replacement.
In announcing Dalton's interim appointment, Bepko said, "Dan has served well as the academic affairs associate dean over the past few years and is in a natural position to assume the leadership of the school."
"We expect the search committee to work quickly and to produce a recommended panel of names during the latter part of the spring term so that we can have a permanent dean in place at the beginning of the fall term," added Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis, IU vice president for academic affairs and chancellor of the IU Bloomington campus. "We are very optimistic about the future of the school and believe it is extremely well-positioned for that future."
Dalton joined the IU faculty after teaching at several California institutions, including the University of California at Los Angeles, Santa Ana College and California State University at Long Beach. He also spent 13 years with General Telephone and Electronics, working in the areas of computer systems, systems interface analysis and planning systems.
He has edited Journal of Management and writes and researches extensively in the area of corporate governance, including CEO succession. He is author or co-author of four books and numerous articles in business and psychology journals.
Dalton was co-principal investigator on a five-year study of personnel policy funded by the General Motors Foundation. Also at IU, he has chaired the Business School's doctoral programs.
From 1971 to 1973, Dalton owned and operated a retail business, Middle Earth, and a light manufacturing, warehousing and wholesale company, D&H;Industries. He received a bachelor of arts degree and a master of science degree in 1975, both from California State University in 1970; and a doctorate in 1979 from the University of California at Irvine.
Metzger also is a former chair of the Business Law Department at IU and has been the recipient of more than a dozen teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1966 and a law degree in 1969, both from IU.
Before coming to teach at IU, Metzger held a variety of positions, including serving as Indiana deputy securities commissioner and senior legislative analyst with the Indiana Legislative Council. He also was in private practice with the Indianapolis law firm of Baratz, Sosin, Jodka and Metzger.
Metzger's research has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly and in numerous other legal, business and ethics journals. He has received the American Business Law Journal's award for the best article of the year three times. He also is co-author of the book Business Law and the Regulatory Environment: Concepts and Cases.