FARHANG NIROOMAND, FORMER ASSOCIATE DEAN,
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, CURRENT DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON AT VICTORIA
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, CURRENT DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON AT VICTORIA
(January 17, 2009) BREAKING NEWS Niroomand Does It HATTIESBURG – With her 14-Jan-09 NewsWire release, the
University of Houston–Victoria's Paula Cobler told the world that UH-V has chosen the CoB's Farhang Niroomand as
its new dean.
(January 19, 2009) GH Chatter The news that Farhang Niroomand has become the new business school dean at the
University of Houston -Victoria has CoB faculty all jacked up in excitement and anticipation. Some have discussed
whether or not Niroomand will want, or try, to take any of the CoB's current faculty with him when he leaves for UH-V
this June.
(January 19, 2009) Niroomand's New Plantation Previewing Human Resources Situation Facing UH-Victoria's New
B-School DeanThe news that former CoB associate dean, and current CoB economics professor, Farhang Niroomand
has accepted the position as dean of the business school at the University of Houston at Victoria is buzzing all around
these days. This particular report looks forward to what Niroomand has in store for himself when he arrives at his new
position on 1-July-09. Table 1 below examines the academic rank (UH@V website) and journal publications (Google
Scholar) of the current crop of permanent faculty at UH@V.
(January 19, 2009) CoB in Agreement The statement that nearly everyone in the CoB is in agreement concerning
anything is so rare as to be an urban legend. But what he could not do as chair or associate dean, he does in departure:
Farhang Niroomand unites the College of Business . . . in elation at his departure after the spring semester.
(January 20, 2009) Special Report Niroomand Leaving -- A Loss, or a Gain? An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty
Research Credentials The report continues the Special Report series on the journal publications that departing CoB
faculty take with them when they go. This installment examines the research record of CoB economics professor
Farhang Niroomand, who is leaving the CoB before 1-July-09 to become the dean of the School of Business at the
University of Houston at Victoria. The results are shown below in Table 1.
(January 20, 2009) Mock Interview with Farhang Niroomand, Part 1 by Hal Greene HG: News that you were hired as
the new business school dean at the University of Houston -- Victoria really surprised and delighted a number of
people. Tell us how this all came about.
(January 20, 2009) The Biggest Losers (under “the ‘hang”) Grading the Research Production of UH-Victoria’s B-School
FacultyThe recent USMNEWS.net story entitled Niroomand's New Plantation provides a thorough accounting of the
human resources situation, at least relative to academic research, that new University of Houston – Victoria School of
Business dean Farhang Niroomand will face beginning 1-July-09. This report carries that analysis one step further by
providing the “research GPA” and the number of journal publications for each UH-V b-school faculty that Niroomand,
the University of Southern Mississippi CoB’s former associate dean, will inherit this summer.