New area business college dean creates long list

Running a business school like a business sounds obvious — but in academia that’s not always a certainty. One new dean embraces that mission.

Courtesy. Chris Westley, a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Lutgert College of Business since 2015, was recently named dean of the business school.
Courtesy. Chris Westley, a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Lutgert College of Business since 2015, was recently named dean of the business school.
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Southwest Florida native Chris Westley says that when he grew up in the 1980s, there was feather-light enthusiasm, at best, among he and his buddies about the region’s long-term job potential. “We thought we would never come back here — not at least until we retired,” says Westley, a Naples High School graduate.

 

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