New Business Dean Named

Rajib Sanyal is the new dean of the Walker L. Cisler College of Business. His appointment is effective July 1.

Sanyal has served as a professor of management in the School of Business at The College of New Jersey – formerly Trenton State – since 1987. He also spent four years as division head. In that capacity, he was responsible for administering academic majors in accounting, economics, finance and international business with 19 full-time and six part-time faculty.

"I am excited at the opportunity to lead Northern's business college," Sanyal said. "It is well situated to serve as a key driver of economic development in the region. The college's human and intellectual resources offer the promise of building on its record of positively changing the lives of students and the lives of the citizens in the community. It is this promise, I should say, that attracts me to Northern."

Sanyal was selected for an American Council on Education Fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year, which he is completing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. In addition to teaching at The College of New Jersey, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, and a consultant on distance education for Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, N.J. He also was a lecturer in commerce at the University of Delhi in India and served as an adjunct faculty member at the following eastern U.S. institutions: Rider University in New Jersy, Thomas Jefferson University in Pennsylvania, and Brenau College in Georgia.

Sanyal holds a doctorate in business administration from Georgia State University. He also holds a master's degree in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master of commerce degree in general business from the University of Delhi-India, and a bachelor of commerce degree in accountancy from the University of Calcutta-India.