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Debora Jackson will be the next dean of the Robert A. Foisie Business School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. She will become dean on January 1.
“Our world requires strategic thinkers and leaders who are innovative in ways that yield societal impact while also engaging diverse constituencies,” Dr. Jackson said. “The way people work and their goals for the work they do continually evolve, and this is a particularly wonderful time for WPI and the Foisie Business School to reimagine our work and mission so that we can best provide the education and the skills needed by our students, industry, and the globe. I am so grateful that WPI has given me the opportunity to be part of this transformation.”
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named an alumna as the new dean of the Robert A. Foisie Business School, the first woman and person of color to do so.
The Rev. Debora Jackson, who has master’s degrees from WPI in both manufacturing engineering and management, joins the school with a background that includes corporate leadership, religious ministry and higher education. Her appointment, which was announced Tuesday, starts Jan. 1.
Jackson spent 20 years in software engineering, eventually holding executive roles at the Swiss firm Smart Energy, and holding director positions at three others. She then pivoted toward ministry, enrolling in the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, where she earned her master s degree of divinity and doctorate of ministry in leadership. In 2017, Jackson was named the first director of lifelong learning at the Yale Divinity School.