ESU Dean of Business to retire
By Scott Rochat
Originally published 02:42 p.m., September 18, 2007
Updated 02:42 p.m., September 18, 2007
Emporia State University will need to find another business dean — but it won’t have to rush.
Robert Hite, who has been dean of the ESU business school since 2003, announced Monday that he would step down from the position at the end of the school year in June. That gives the university about nine months to find a replacement.
Hite will remain at ESU as a marketing research professor.
“I had always planned to return to faculty before I retired and this is the right time and place to do so,” he said in a press release by the university.
Hite’s university career goes back more than 30 years and includes time spent at the State University of West Georgia, Montana State University, Colorado State University, Kansas State University, the University of Arkansas and Indiana State University. He has been recognized by ESU as a Jones Distinguished Professor.
Hite’s wife, Nancy, is a professor of business administration and education at ESU.