LibGuides: History of Dalhousie University: Management

Key Facts

The first Public Administration program at Dalhousie was created in 1936
The School of Information Management (SIM) was created as the School of Library Service (SLS) in 1969. The first MLS (Master of Library Service) degree was awarded in May 1971
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was created in 1967
In the 1972-1973 academic year, the Master of Business Administration program obtained the research faculty members required to begin research activities
The Faculty of Administrative Studies was created in 1975, and included the School of Business Administration (formerly the Department of Commerce), the School of Public Administration, the School of Library Services, and the Maritime School of Social Work
The faculty was renamed the Faculty of Management Studies (later the Faculty of Management) in 1984
In 1987, the School of Business Administration constituted 75% of the faculty employed. During this time, the Master of Library and Information Studies program had 6 and a half full time faculty
The School of Library Service (SLS) was renamed the School of Information Management (SIM) in 2005
The Master of Information Management (MIM) Program was launched in 2008
The Corporate Residency MBA was launched in 2009. The next year, European CEO magazine calls the faculty the most innovative business school in Canada

A. Peter Ruderman
A. Peter Ruderman was the first Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Studies from 1975-1980
Tom Kent
Tom Kent was Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Studies from 1980-1983
Norman Horrocks
Norman Horrocks was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 1983-1986. He has multiple Dalhousie scholarships in the Faculty of Management named in his honour, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2006 for his work in Canadian libraries and information science
Roy E. George
Roy E. George was Dean of the Faculty of Management in 1987
Jim McNiven
Jim McNiven was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 1988-1994
Philip Rosson
Philip Rosson was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 1994-1999, and acting Dean from 2005-2006
Abol Jalilvand
Abol Jalilvand was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 1999-2005
David Wheeler
David Wheeler was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 2006-2009
Peggy Cunningham
Peggy Cunningham was acting Dean of the Faculty of Management from 2009-2010, and Dean from 2010-2015
Bertrum MacDonald
Bertrum MacDonald was acting Dean of the Faculty of Management from 2015-2016
Sylvain Charlebois
Sylvain Charlebois was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 2016 to 2020.
Kim Brooks
Kim Brooks was Dean of the Faculty of Management from 2020 to 2022.
Mike Smit
Mike Smit has been Acting Dean of the Faculty of Management since 2022.

Julia Sagebien
Julia Sagebien won the Dalhousie Student Union's first award for teaching excellence in 2006 for Management
Kenneth C. Rowe
Kenneth C. (Ken) Rowe served on the School of Business' advisory council for more than 20 years (10 of them as its chair), and has donated millions to the faculty as a financial benefactor. The Kenneth C. Rowe building is named in his honor
Mayann Francis
Mayann Francis was the first Employment Equity Officer at Dalhousie University, and is currently the Distinguished Public Service Fellow in the Faculty of Management. Her work focuses on gender and race equality at universities and in the workforce
Sunny Marche
Sunny Marche was a professor in the Faculty of Management who was the inaugural winner of Dalhousie’s A. Gordon Archibald Award for Teaching Excellence, received three MBA Professor of the Year Awards (2002, 2003, 2005) and also won the Teaching Excellence Award in Management Education, the Faculty of Management’s top teaching award, in 2007