December 10, 2004

'Business Week' Editor to Be CUNY Journalism Dean; Candidate Backs Out of Louisiana College Presidency

By PIPER FOGG and ROBIN WILSON

FROM EDITOR TO DEAN: "We're starting the school from scratch," says Stephen B. Shepard, editor in chief of Business Week, who will become dean of the new Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Mr. Shepard will start on March 15, 2005; the school is slated to open in 2006.

The school will be located in a newsy neighborhood, in a building on West 41st Street that was once the home of The New York Herald Tribune. It will also be next door to the future