Second Walton College Dean Candidate Holds Open Forum

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The second of four candidates to be the next dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas speaks to the campus community Monday, Jan. 30.

David Urban, executive associate dean of the school of business and professor of marketing at Virginia Commonwealth University, speaks at an open forum from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development.

Urban received a bachelor of science in commerce from the University of Virginia and holds both a master’s degree in psychology and a doctorate in business administration from the University of Michigan. Urban has been executive associate dean of the business school at Virginia Commonwealth since 2010 after serving as interim dean of the business school in 2009-2010. He formerly had a joint appointment as director of the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth. Urban's primary research interests are in customer satisfaction, retailing and distribution channel management. He has published over 30 articles in publications such as the Journal of Advertising Research, Industrial Marketing Management and Human Resource Management, among others.

The other three candidates for the position are Sarah Gardial of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Stephen Mangum of Ohio State University; and Eli Jones of Louisiana State University.

A half-hour reception will follow Urban’s talk. Complete vitas for all of the candidates are available online at http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/dean-search.asp.