TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University has named a new dean of the College of Business.
Michael D. Hartline will officially become the dean on April 1st.
Hartline, the Charles A. Bruning Professor of Business Administration at Florida State, joined the college's faculty in 2001 and has served as interim dean since July.
"Michael is a highly collaborative, dedicated leader," said Sally McRorie, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. "He has great strengths in relationship building at every level from colleagues and students to alumni and donors. Dean Hartline's enthusiastic commitment to strategic initiatives and moving the College of Business into the Top 25 is contagious!"
During his time as interim dean, Hartline played a major part in securing a $100 million gift from Jan Moran and The Jim Moran Foundation to create the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship, which will be the largest interdisciplinary entrepreneurship school of its kind in the nation.
"I am incredibly honored to be named dean and eager to continue serving our great college and university," Hartline said. "We are putting the pieces in place that will keep us on the path toward preeminence. Our faculty, staff, students and alumni are outstanding, and I look forward to working with them and FSU leadership on key initiatives that will further enhance our reputation around the world."
Hartline has been a faculty member at Florida State for 15 years. He succeeds Caryn Beck-Dudley, who left Florida State after nine years of service to become dean of Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.
