Business educator seeks to pass retirement

The first time business school professor and administrator Robert Anderson retired, in 2006, he admits it was a failure.

Now he will try again. The dean of the College of Business at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Anderson plans to retire at the end of the year. USF Sarasota-Manatee marketing professor Jim Curran, a onetime executive with four large international precious metals firms, will replace Anderson, who turns 74 Oct. 30.

“There was too much time and not enough to do,” says Anderson, who first retired in 2006 after a decade at the helm of the University of South Florida College of Business Administration on the main Tampa campus. “Hopefully I will get it right this time. I'm going to work very hard to remain gainfully unemployed.”