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Dr. Jasbir S. Dhaliwal

He will oversee the renewal and expansion of the College’s undergraduate programs, its five MBA tracks (professional, international, executive, customer-driven, and online), and its research-based doctoral programs. He will also work with the faculty to advance collaborative, interdisciplinary research opportunities, as the College continues to stress research development as a way to strengthen its position nationally in business and economics research.

In announcing the appointment, Fogelman College Dean Rajiv Grover said, “I am delighted that Dr. Dhaliwal has accepted this position. The faculty and I have high expectations of him. He will increase the pace of innovation in all academic programs and quality improvement in student services and student experience, with the goal of increasing the recruitment and retention of students.”

Dhaliwal is a professor in the College’s Department of Management Information Systems (MIS); before his new appointment, he was chairman of that department. He is also director of the Systems Testing Excellence Program at the FedEx Institute of Technology.

Dhaliwal is internationally recognized for his research and work in software testing, intelligent interface design, and information technology governance and technology entrepreneurship. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and he is the co-author of a book on e-business innovation.

An accountant, Dhaliwal holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia. He has taught at the U of M since 2005.

The Fogelman College of Business and Economics teaches a rigorous, relevant, and wide-ranging business curriculum to almost 3,000 students at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. Of the College’s 103 full-time faculty, seven occupy Chairs of Excellence and one is a Distinguished Professor.

The College houses the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management, the FedEx Center for Supply Chain Management, the Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research, and the Robert Wang Center for International Business.

Because many of America’s greatest companies have headquarters or other offices in Memphis, students of the FCBE are able to interact with those businesses for invaluable real-world experience before graduation.