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Estess Leaving as Honors College Dean  After
more than three decades at the helm, Ted Estess has announced that
he will be stepping down as dean of The Honors College this summer.
Estess will remain at UH as a professor of English at The Honors College.
“I’m not doing this because I’m disappointed or
discouraged, or even tired,” he explained. “I just have
a strong sense that it is time for a change.” A search advisory committee will be named shortly and a national search will get under way for Estess’ successor this spring, said Provost Don Foss. The provost applauded the dean’s development of the university’s “outstanding honors community” into “one of the premier such organizations in the country.” The Honors College is an interdisciplinary program (accepting majors from the school’s other academic colleges) with approximately 1200 students enrolled. “Our Honors College is the lever we have for academic excellence at the University of Houston, and it’s my hope that the university will continue to use it that way,” Estess said. Bauer College’s Evening MBA Ranks #1 in Houston; Marketing Department Lauded Also for Productivity BusinessWeek has recognized the evening MBA program at the C. T. Bauer College of Business as one of the best in the nation by including it in the 2007 list of the 30 Best Part-Time MBA Programs.This survey marks the first time that BusinessWeek has ranked part-time MBA programs. Bauer College’s program is the only Houston program on the list and is No. 27 in the United States and No. 4 in the Southwest region. Bauer was one of four Texas programs recognized, placing higher on the list than the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, which ranked No. 30 in the country and No. 5 in the Southwest. University of Texas at San Antonio ranked No. 26 in the country and Southern Methodist University was No. 13. For nearly 70 years, Bauer has educated business professionals through its evening MBA program, which is designed to allow students to earn their degrees while maintaining full-time employment. The program is designed to give students a foundation in such areas as management, accounting, finance, operations management, statistics and marketing. Almost 9,000 students have graduated from the part-time program since its inception. “This ranking signifies a great success by all of our students, faculty and staff as well as the University and Houston communities,” Dean Arthur D. Warga said. “We are thrilled to be included in such a prestigious list of schools and even more excited that this is the first ever BusinessWeek ranking for our evening MBA program. Our MBA students’ positive feedback about our program made this ranking possible.” In addition to the Evening MBA program’s accolades, Bauer College’s department of marketing was recently deemed one of the 10 most productive in the country, according to a list published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The ranking, compiled by Academic Analytics, rates UH ninth and cites the Bauer department for faculty members’ contributions to books and journals, as well as citations and financial and honorary awards. UH Receives
$2.4M Grant to Support  The
University of Houston has received a grant of up to $2.4 million to
improve teacher education in math and science following a competition
that included submissions from more than 50 universities nationwide.
The grant is one of only 12 to be awarded by the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) to implement programs modeled after UTeach, a highly successful math and science teacher preparation program at The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Houston’s program is called teachHOUSTON. The grant was announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. “Texas has long been a pioneer for research-based, data-driven education. I’m pleased that programs like UTeach and teachHOUSTON are continuing this tradition and expanding a successful model dedicated to improving secondary school instruction in math and science,” Spellings said. “By training highly qualified high school math and science teachers, programs like these will help prepare our nation's students for success in college and beyond.” For the latest news from UH, visit www.uh.edu/news-events/. |
