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MN Biz Leaders to Help Pick New Carlson School Dean

The search committee includes several local business leaders, including Bruce Beckman, chief financial officer of General Mills, Lynn Casey, CEO of Padilla Speer Beardsley and Reath Clark King, former president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation.

Research has officially begun for the next dean of the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and the team assembled to find the next leader of the school consists of several local business leaders.

The University of Minnesota announced Tuesday that Thomas Sullivan, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, has launched an international search committee to find the next dean of Carlson. Mary Nichols, Dean of the College of the University continuing education and a Carlson School professor, will chair the search committee. William Van Dyke, former chairman of Donaldson Company, Inc., and former Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Carlson is vice-chair.

The search committee also includes several U faculty and staff, and business leaders in Minnesota following:

• Bruce Beckman, chief financial officer of General Mills, Inc. and former chairman of the board of Carlson old

• Lynn Casey, CEO and president of Padilla Speer Beardsley

• Reath Clark King, former president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation

• Judy Corson, co-founder of Custom Research, Inc.

• James Lawrence, CEO of Rothschild North America and a member of the Board of Supervisors Carlson

• Jeffrey Noddle, Chairman of the Executive's retirement Supervalu, Inc., and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Carlson

The university said the search process will take place during the fall and winter, and the school hopes to name the next dean in March Carlson.

"After consultation with the University President Eric Kaler and those within and beyond the community Carlson, including local business leaders, we all agree that the new Dean of Carlson School must continue and expand its excellence a large momentum, and outstanding progress, "Sullivan said in a statement.

Alison Davis-Blake, who served as dean of the Carlson School of Management U of nearly five years, announced in February his intention to leave his post to become dean of the University of Michigan Business School, a gesture that took effect Monday.

Sri Zaheer is currently the interim dean of the Carlson School. Zaheer on appointing interim dean, U said it would choose the search committee after the arrival of its new president, Eric Kaler, who began work on July 1.

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“MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (February 2, 2011) – The Reatha Clark King Award for Excellence and Youth Motivation through the Cultural Arts was developed by VocalEssence to celebrate and recognize those who provide the resources to help organizations come closer to their vision, and those who are in the field empowering youth through direct contact, making a way for them to be as successful as they can be. On Friday, March 4, 2011, Sharon Sayles Belton will be presented with the Reatha Clark King Award for Excellence and Youth Motivation through the Cultural Arts on stage at the VocalEssence WITNESS concert at Orchestra Hall. Artist Ta-Coumba Aiken creates a one-of-a-kind framed art glass tile which is presented to the winners as a memento of the award. “Sharon Sayles Belton is currently vice president of Community Relations and Government Affairs for Thomson Reuters. Sayles Belton’s career has been forged on a lifetime dedicated to public service and creating public-private opportunities. She is a senior fellow at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota and is a nationally recognized expert on public safety, neighborhood livability and economic development. In 1993, Sayles Belton was the first African American and the first woman to be elected mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the city’s 140-year history. During her tenure as mayor from 1994 to 2001, she facilitated the creation of the nationally recognized Phillips Partnership to address public safety, job creation and quality housing in one of the highest-crime, poorest neighborhoods in Minneapolis. “'We recognize Sharon Sayles Belton for her work with neighborhood revitalization. Her work as co-founder of the Harriet Tubman Shelter for Battered Women and the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault is invaluable. In addition, she was instrumental in getting the City of Minneapolis to support the World Choral Symposium held here in 2002. We were especially grateful to have had her serve on the board of VocalEssence from 2002 to 2008,' said VocalEssence Artistic Director Philip Brunelle . “In her role, Sayles Belton directs government affairs activities, focusing on key issues that impact the legal businesses of Thomson Reuters as well as its customers and employees.

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