Hiring and Firing Bytes

• Edward A. Snyder, dean of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, announced last week that he will resign next year after nine years on the job, the Chicago Tribune reports. Coincidentally, Snyder’s announcement comes only about a week after The Harvard Crimson reported that Dean Jay O. Light of the Harvard Business School said he would vacate his post in June. Meanwhile, as the Tribune article notes, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is also still searching for a new dean.

• Radford University’s embattled provost, Wil Stanton, who endured a no-confidence vote by the faculty senate in October, will step down on December 31 to return to the faculty, The Roanoke Times reports.

• Ryan C. Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon, will become dean of Texas A&M University’s George Bush School of Government and Public Service on January 25, 2010, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

• Michael Brown, ex-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Katrina hurricane disaster, has been hired by the University of Denver’s law school to teach a course on the Patriot Act, Talking Points Memo reports.

• The Universities of Kansas and Illinois could soon be requiring furloughs, if their budget woes persist.

• San Jose/Evergreen Community College District Trustees have tabled a plan to lay off more than 100 employees following an angry protest from workers, The Ticker reports.