Freedman heads College of Business

The former dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston is leading Mississippi State's College of Business and Industry.

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Sara M. Freedman, a dean at Houston since 1995 and a faculty member at the Texas university since 1976, assumed her new duties at Mississippi State in mid-August.

"Dr. Freedman has the wide professional contacts, the experience, and the energy to lead our College of Business and Industry to new levels of productivity and service," said President Malcolm Portera. "She has a solid record of leadership at Houston, and she provides significant new strength to the team that we are building."

As dean, Freedman guided Houston's business school through reaccreditation by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

She is a member of the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council, which oversees the Graduate Management Admission Test. The GMAT is used nationwide in business school admissions decisions and is the first standardized test to use a computer adaptive test exclusively.

Freedman received a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1976, the same year she joined the University of Houston faculty as an assistant professor. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Boston University.

Mississippi State's College of Business and Industry, which includes the School of Accountancy, enrolls about 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students. Freedman succeeds Harvey Lewis, who retired at the end of 1997 to enter private business.