Joe Alexander, dean of the University of Northern Colorado’s Monfort College of Business since 2002, will leave the school this year to become an associate dean at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
The move is effective June 30, UNC announced Monday.
Under Alexander, UNC’s business school won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2004, the only business college to earn the honor.
The Baldrige Award is given annually to businesses and educational and health care organizations judged to be outstanding in seven key areas, including leadership and strategic planning. UNC was only the second college or university – and the second Colorado organization – to win the honor since the award’s inception in 1987.
Alexander, 47, also helped UNC’s business school triple its annual donations from alumni and friends of the college, according to the school.
“Dean Alexander has continued the tradition of excellence at the (school), taking it to the national stage,” Kay Norton, president of UNC, said in a statement.
In addition to his administrative duties at Belmont, Alexander will also teach graduate-level courses.
UNC expects to name an interim dean for its business school this month and will begin a national search for a permanent replacement shortly thereafter.
Staff writer Will Shanley can be reached at 303-954-1260 or wshanley@denverpost.com.
