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Ãrn Bodvarsson named dean of Atkinson Graduate School of Management by Carol S. Long, Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, May 06, 2021 We are delighted to announce that Örn Bodvarsson has agreed to join Willamette University as the next dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management. Bodvarsson is currently dean of the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business and professor of economics at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has served in leadership roles at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, where he served as the founding dean of the School of Public Affairs, and at California State University, Sacramento, as dean of its College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. ....
Ma Yinchu was born in 1882 in Zhejiang, China. The son of a small business owner, he was inclined towards scholarship. After earning an undergraduate degree at Tianjin University, he studied at Yale, subsequently earning a PhD in economics and philosophy from Columbia University. He returned to China and helped found the Shanghai College of Commerce and the Chinese Economics Society. While politically astute, Dr Ma’s ill-timed criticism of the Kuomintang government led to house arrest. However, upon the victory of Mao’s People’s Liberation Army in 1949, his career was revived. For the next decade, fortune smiled on Dr Ma through the patronage of his friend Zhou Enlai, Chairman Mao’s right-hand man. The Communist government appointed him president of Zhejiang University, and soon after he was appointed president of the prestigious Peking University. ....