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Administration

Dean
Arthur Kraft

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

Office:	Beckman Hall 302A	Phone:	(714) 628-2839
E-mail:	akraft@chapman.edu	Fax:	(714) 744-7890

Arthur Kraft joined Chapman University as dean of the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics and Robert J. and Carolyn A. Waltos, Jr. Chair in Business and Economics in January 2006. In his role as dean, Dr. Kraft is responsible for the academic and operational affairs of the college. This includes but is not limited to fundraising, operational and strategic planning, academic accreditation and program reviews, faculty development and recruiting, and accreditation activities of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Dr. Kraft’s involvement with AACSB International includes numerous activities in support of accreditation. He is past chair of the board of directors and served in other leadership positions for AACSB International. He is on the board of the Global Foundation for Management Education. He chairs the nominating committee and the accreditation coordinating committee (ACC). He is a member of the strategic directions committee, the AQ doctoral bridge task force, Committee on Issues in Management Education (CIME) and the executive committee. He served as chair of the pre-accreditation committee (PAC) and as a member of ACC. He has served as the business advisor, pre-candidacy advisor, peer review team member and peer review team chair for several accreditation reviews of academic institutions in the United States and around the world.

A native of Eden, NY, Dr. Kraft served as business school dean at Georgia Institute of Technology, Rutgers University,West Virginia University and DePaul University before he joined Chapman. He began his career in higher education at Ohio University in 1969 and was promoted to full professor of quantitative methods in 1975. He served as professor and associate dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1977-83.

Dr. Kraft served as dean of the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University from 1983-1987. In 1987, he joined Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, as business school dean and professor of finance and management, becoming the first dean of the newly established School of Business at Rutgers’ New Brunswick campus. Six years later, Dr. Kraft became dean of the School of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he held until 1997. He was professor of international and strategic management from 1997-1999, and served as chair of the school’s doctoral program from 1998-1999.

Dr. Kraft, who has experience in both education and government, received his Ph.D. in economics in 1970 and a master’s degree in economics in 1969 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics magna cum laude from St. Bonaventure University in 1966.

Associate Dean
Bruce Dehning

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Office:	Beckman Hall 301B	Phone:	(714) 628-2702
E-mail:	bdehning@chapman.edu	Fax:	(714) 532-6081

Associate Professor of Accounting Information Systems. Ph.D., Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. Dr. Dehning received the American Accounting Association Information Systems Section Notable Contributions to the Literature Award in 2006, was named a Fulbright Scholar to teach in the Czech Republic in 2005, and was awarded the Wang-Fradkin Professorship at Chapman University in 2004. He serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems and is the President-Elect of the Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association. His work has been cited almost 200 times in published and working papers, including more than 50 times in the Social Sciences Citation Index. He has presented papers at numerous prestigious national and international conferences, and his research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Information and Management, and other academic journals. Outside of academia Dr. Dehning spent time in the insurance industry and as an accounting information systems consultant for small businesses.

Assistant Dean
Jon Kaplan

MBA, UCLA

Office:	Beckman Hall 301A	Phone:	(714) 997-6990
E-mail:	jkaplan@chapman.edu	Fax:	(714) 997-6757

Jon Kaplan is Assistant Dean, Graduate and Executive Programs for The Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, where he oversees both the MBA and Executive MBA Programs. Besides managing student services for the graduate student body, Jon is responsible for the recruitment of new students into each program. He also is a part of the strategic planning team for the Argyros School and serves as Faculty Athletics Representative for Chapman University.

Since Jon took over the management of the ASBE graduate programs, he and his staff have been able to consistently increase the quality and quantity of the students in both graduate programs. Jon has helped introduce new student-focused initiatives, including the ‘Dinner for Eight’ program, which gives graduate students the opportunity to interact with and learn from top business people from Orange County and other parts of Southern California, in an informal setting. He also was instrumental in the effort to open up the MBA Career Management Center in August 2006.

Jon is an MBA graduate with honors from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and came to Chapman University after working for 5 years at UCLA Anderson, first as Associate Director of Admissions, and then as Associate Director of the Parker Career Management Center. Prior to getting his MBA, Jon graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and then spent over a decade as Director of Operations for the UCLA Football Team, where he assisted the coaching staff in leading the team to national prominence. He has experience as a product manager for Agron, Inc., a licensee of adidas, and he helped Disney unveil the “Wide World of Sports” attraction, located at Walt Disney World in Florida. He also spent one winter touring as the public address announcer for The Harlem Globetrotters.

Jon is on the Board of Directors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Orange County chapter, and he is a co-author of a book entitled “The Early Career MBA”.