Lehigh Names New Dean of College of Business and Economics
Lehigh University has named Georgette Chapman Phillips the next dean of the College of Business and Economics. She will officially assume her new role on July 1, 2014. Phillips was selected after an extensive international search led by Korn/Ferry International. The search committee at Lehigh praised her intimate understanding of the issues and opportunities facing business education today.
Phillips brings significant business school administration experience to her new role. She currently serves as the vice dean for Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She also served as the vice dean of the undergraduate division at Wharton from 2007-2013. As vice dean of the undergraduate division, Phillips added capstone courses for seniors, expanded the undergraduate curriculum, and created a new concentration in entrepreneurship. Lehigh’s President Alice P. Gast observed: “Georgette is truly a leader in the business school community. She is a renowned scholar and an experienced academic leader who brings significant international and corporate experience.”
Phillips cited Lehigh’s highly ranked graduate and undergraduate programs, its world class faculty, and its dedication to cross-disciplinary collaboration as reasons she chose to accept the dean position. Phillips has shown an interest in the collaboration between Lehigh’s College of Business and Economics and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. She also hopes to develop collaborations with international programs in the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences.
She will replace Tom Hyclack, who has served as the interim dean for Lehigh’s business school since Dean Paul Richard Brown stepped down in the summer to take a position as president of Monmouth University.
