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George Benson, a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute, was recently elected as the new College of Charleston president by the school’s Board of Trustees. For the past eight and a half years, he has been the dean of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Under his leadership, the Terry College of Business has consistently ranked among the top 20 public business schools by leading college guides and business publications. Previously, he has served from 1993 to 1998 as the dean of the Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University. From 1977 to 1993 he was a faculty member in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Benson is the co-author of one of the leading textbooks on business statistics. It has been widely used in the U.S. and abroad for the last 29 years. Prentice Hall published the ninth edition in 2005. His research spans several fields including decision analysis, operations management, statistics, finance, and economics.

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Barry Render, the Charles Harwood Professor of Operations Management and Management Science at Rollins College’s Graduate School of Business, in Winter Park, Florida, has recently been named to the Board of Directors of Action Products International, Inc.(APII-NASDAQ). Action is the premier manufacturer of educational toys in the US, with such products as I-Dig, Space Explorers, Curiosity Kits, and Jay-Jay the Jet Plane. Render has been appointed chair of the Compensation Committee and serves on Action’s Audit Committee as well. His Prentice Hall text book with Jay Heizer, Operations Management, now in its 8th edition, is the leading OM book in the US and global college markets. His Quantitative Analysis text, with Ralph Stair and Mike Hanna, is entering its 10th edition.

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