New deans appointed at DU’s two largest academic divisions
Women scholars moving from TCU and Tulane Universities
DENVER— The University of Denver’s nationally ranked Daniels College of Business, and divisions of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will have new leadership beginning this summer. Chancellor Robert Coombe announced today that Christine Riordan, Ph.D. has been hired to lead Daniels and Anne McCall, Ph.D. will lead Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Riordan is currently the associate dean for External Relations and professor and holder of the Luther Henderson Chair of Leadership in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (TCU), which also holds numerous national rankings. McCall is the associate dean in the School of Liberal Arts and associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University.
“Christine Riordan and Anne McCall are extraordinarily capable people with very impressive backgrounds and demonstrate the kinds of leaders the University of Denver can attract,” says Coombe. “Both are forward-thinking scholars who will take their respective divisions to a higher level in the coming years.” Together, Daniels and Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences account for nearly 45 percent of the total enrollment at the University of Denver.
The Daniels College of Business has 874 graduate and 2,356 undergraduate students enrolled in its programs, and is the largest academic division at the University. The college is nationally recognized as one of the top seven schools in the world for producing graduates with high ethical standards (The Wall Street Journal) and is ranked among the top business schools in the world by leading business publications and surveys that also includes Business Week, and Beyond Grey Pinstripes. In 2008, it celebrates its 100th anniversary and it is among the first business colleges founded in the U.S.
In Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, there are 319 graduate and 1,326 undergraduate students. The divisions have 15 departments and schools, including highly regarded programs in English, History, Psychology, and Music. The Lamont School of Music is housed in the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts, which is among the finest university performing arts centers in the world.
Biographical information:
Christine Riordan, Ph.D.— Riordan is a nationally recognized expert in leadership development and diversity. For the past three years, she was at TCU as an Associate Dean. Before TCU, she was managing and founding director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement in the Terry College of Business and a faculty member in the department of Management at the University of Georgia (UGA). Riordan has a long history of cultivating and maintaining working relationships with the business community. She has worked closely with many Fortune 500 and private corporations as a consultant on leadership development and diversity management programs and through her professional activities at TCU and UGA. She helped raise more than $10 million dollars at TCU and UGA combined.
While at TCU, she led a branding and marketing initiative for the business school, the creation of a new student leadership programs office, the development of profitable executive education programs, a partnership with the engineering school to create a new energy institute, and the expansion of the business school’s alumni relations activities.
Anne McCall, Ph.D.— Mc Call has been at Tulane for 16 years, and has served as associate dean since 2005. While at Tulane, she also served as director of the Women’s Studies program from 1999-2004 and played a pivotal role in helping the program quadruple the number of majors and minors. McCall also helped the university re-establish its programs following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, which shut down the school for one semester.
In addition to her administrative duties at Tulane, McCall remained an active scholar who is fully immersed in her research. Her findings appear in established publications on French nineteenth-century studies, and she participates regularly in research groups in the United States and France. Mc Call also served on Tulane’s NCAA recertification subcommittee on Welfare, Equity, and Sportsmanship.