E.J. Ourso College of Business Dean Eli Jones was supposed to spend the next few days unveiling the glass titan that he is best known for procuring the funding to build — the University’s Business Education Complex.
Instead, he will be changing course by planning for his new job as dean of the University of Arkansas’s Sam M. Walton College of Business.
“We appreciate the leadership that Eli Jones provided to the E. J. Ourso College during his time here,” said LSU Chancellor Michael Martin in a news release. “He oversaw the fundraising efforts for and the construction of the college’s new Business Education Complex. He has been a good representative of the University, and we certainly did what we could to keep him at LSU. As both a colleague and a friend, I wish Eli and his family the very best.”
Jones, one of the highest-paid administrators at LSU, was salaried at $299,999 last year, according to The Daily Reveille’s salary database.
But ArkansasBusiness.com reported Wednesday that Jones will earn $375,000 annually at his new job, equating a pay raise of approximately $75,000.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported in 2009 that Dan Worrell, currently dean of Walton College until he steps down in July, earned a salary of $273,255.
Ashok Saxena, chair of the University of Arkansas search committee for the Walton College dean, said the committee made its recommendations to University of Arkansas Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Sharon Gaber about a week ago. Gaber said The University of Arkansas planned to release an official announcement late Wednesday afternoon.
U.S. News and World Report’s 2011 college edition ranked the University of Arkansas’s Walton College 24th among public undergraduate business schools, while it ranked the E.J. Ourso College of Business 49th.
 
 
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