BRISTOL – Roger Williams University has selected college administrator and long-time economics professor Jerry W. Dauterive of Louisiana to serve as the new dean of RWU’s Gabelli School of Business effective Aug. 1.
Dauterive comes to Roger Williams from the College of Business at Loyola University New Orleans, where he had served as interim dean since 2006. A member of the Loyola faculty since 1979, Dauterive has been the university’s John V. Connor Distinguished Professor in Economics and Finance and also has served as chairman of the business college’s Area of Economics and Finance and director of its MBA program.
He previously taught economics at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1976 to 1979, and worked as an instructor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he earned his bachelor of business administration degree and a doctorate in economics.
During his career, he has published a number of academic papers on topics including campaign finance reform and the problems of globalization.
Dauterive will replace Maling Ebrahimpour, who has led the RWU business school for the past six years. RWU spokeswoman Jennifer N. Sullivan told Providence Business News that Ebrahimpour is stepping down as dean to return to full-time teaching as a tenured professor of management.
Roger Williams University, ranked by U.S. News & World Report as 9th among comprehensive colleges in the North, is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. It enrolls more than 5,000 students at its main campus in Bristol, its School of Law and its Providence Metropolitan Center for Education and Law. For more information, visit rwu.edu .
