The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University has added six new tenured and tenuretrack professors to its faculty for 2012-13. Of the six appointments, three are for newly created positions, representing the first phase of an ambitious three-year faculty hiring plan initiated last year that will increase the size of the Freeman School’s research-active faculty by almost 40 percent.
The Freeman School’s current faculty recruiting initiative seeks not only to bring the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty back to where it was prior to Hurricane Katrina but to boldly reposition the Freeman School to compete in a rapidly changing educational environment.
When Stanley Motta (BBA ’67) was asked to deliver the charge to graduates at this year’s diploma ceremony, he realized he had a special insight into the role: Fortyfive years ago, as a Tulane senior, he himself had sat in McAlister Auditorium impatiently waiting for the speaker to finish his speech so he could receive his diploma.
More than 150 alums spanning 45 years of the Freeman School turned out on May 4 for Freeman’s second annual Graduate Alumni Reunion Party.
