Bobrowski said he’s looking forward to working at what he believes is a growing university.
“The University of Dayton has done quite a bit in the last decade,” Bobrowski said Friday. “It has a momentum and a potential to do more.”
The Cleveland native served at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a young Air Force officer in the early 1970s. After leaving the service as a captain in 1981, he embarked on an academic career, teaching and working at the University of Oregon, Indiana University and other schools before joining Auburn University.
While Bobrowski worked at Auburn, the university experienced a “jump in private support, including the largest, single gift in the college’s history — $5 million for the finance department,” UD said.
Bobrowski joins a school that has stretched its physical footprint west to the Great Miami River, using that land as an economic development tool. General Electric is building a $51 million electrical power research and development center on university land northeast of South Patterson Boulevard and River Park Drive.
He also will lead the school at a time when more is expected of business school deans than ever, said Jerry Trapnell, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer for the Tampa, Fla.-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Often today, business deans have an increasingly large external role, with expectations to help manage a university’s relations with local corporations, alumni, fundraising and philanthropic work, Trapnell said. They can also be at the forefront of training future business leaders and nurturing new businesses.
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