Mazze to retire as dean of URI's business school

The Providence Sunday Journal, Sunday, 9/11/2005

Edward M. Mazze will retire as dean of the University of Rhode Island's College of Business Administration at the end of the academic year on June 30, 2006. Mazze will stay at the university as the distinguished university professor of business administration.

Mazze, 64, said he will be 65 by the end of the school year and will take a sabbatical before starting to teach at URI in 2007. He will teach undergraduates and MBA students about marketing and international business.

His sabbatical will include writing another book, doing research and serving as the Rhode Island economic forecaster for the New England Economic Project. He says he plans to work until he's 70.

Mazze has spent 37 years as a college administrator. Before starting at URI in 1998, he worked at the University of North Carolina, Temple, Seton Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and West Virginia University.

"I've had a great eight years here," Mazze says. "I've had a ball."