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Three administrative positions have been filled in the Terry College of Business, according to Dean George Benson. Charles Squires has been named associate dean for external relations, Melvin Crask is the director of M.B.A. programs and Jeffrey Humphreys has been promoted to director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth.

Charles Squires
As associate dean for external relations--a newly created position--Squires manages the offices of alumni relations, development and communications in the Terry College, leading an external relations staff of seven. The alumni relations office is responsible for outreach programs such as the Terry Third Thursday speaker series in Atlanta and college-based alumni activities, such as homecoming and spring reunion. The development office solicits private and foundation gifts to provide academic support and endow faculty chairs and professorships. The communications office publishes Terry alumni magazine, coordinates media relations and manages production of print collateral for the college.

Melvin Crask
Dropping the “interim” from his title, Crask will be responsible for the one-year and two-year full-time M.B.A. programs, as well as the customized, distance-learning M.B.A. program developed for Pricewaterhouse-Coopers’ management consultants.
Crask succeeds nine-year director Kay Keck, who had followed Crask into the job in 1991. Though this is Crask’s second time around as program director, the job has changed dramatically in a decade. When Crask was director of graduate programs from 1985 to 1991, the position was split part time with teaching and research responsibilities. Now the M.B.A. director’s post is full-time, with additional staff supporting the program. Crask reports to the associate dean for academic programs. He also retains his rank as an associate professor in the marketing department.

Jeffrey Humphreys
For a decade, Humphreys has been one of the most quoted experts on economic trends in Georgia and the Southeast. Since 1989, he has held a faculty appointment as the college’s director of economic forecasting, based in the Selig Center. In 1996, he was given the additional administrative title of assistant director of the Selig Center.
The economic forecasting center is responsible for the college’s annual economic outlook, but also produces studies commissioned by state agencies and the private sector. Humphreys also is known for a series of studies that he began publishing in the early 1990s on minority buying power.
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