NEWS RELEASE

College of Commerce and Business Administration

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

414 Wohlers Hall, 1206 South Sixth Street

Champaign IL 61820

www.cba.uiuc.edu For release December 10, 2001

For more information contact: Ginny Hudak-David, Director, Commerce Communications

217-244-8146; hudakdav@uiuc.edu

Associate Dean for Illinois MBA Program announced

Mary Miller, currently Associate Dean at the Stern School at New York University, was recently named the Associate Dean of the Illinois MBA Program. Dean Avijit Ghosh made the announcement to CCBA staff in an email dated December 5.

Prior to joining the Stern School as the Director of MBA Admissions in 1994, Mary Miller was the Director of Business Undergraduate Programs and Associate Director of the Office of Cooperative Education at the University of Iowa. She holds a bachelors and a masters from the University of Iowa in the social foundation of education. She has also completed her coursework for a doctoral degree in education at NYU.

Miller is expected to begin work in January 2002.

Nationally recognized as one of the leading business schools, the College of Commerce and Business Administration has outstanding programs in accounting, business, economics, and finance. The college enrolls more than 3,000 undergraduates, 700 MBA and master's students, and 175 doctoral candidates from all 50 states and more than 30 countries worldwide.

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