August 4, 2003
Raines Named New Dean of Belmont College of Business
NASHVILLE, August 4, 2003 - Dr. J. Patrick Raines has been named the new Dean of the Belmont University College of Business Administration, which includes Belmont's undergraduate business program and the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business Administration.
Raines is currently a professor of economics and holder of the F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business at the Robins School of Business at the private University of Richmond, where he has taught since 1982. Dr. Raines holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D, all in economics, from the University of Alabama.
Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher says Dr. Raines brings to Belmont a wealth of academic experience and credentials, and an entrepreneurial edge, making him the right person to lead Belmont's undergraduate and graduate business programs.
"His credentials speak for themselves," says Fisher. "And his leadership of the University of Richmond's innovative Corporate MBA program is the kind of leadership that will take Belmont's Massey Graduate School of Business to the next level. We are delighted to have Dr. Raines join the Belmont family."
At the University of Richmond, Dr. Raines directed an innovative Corporate MBA program that provides an accelerated weekend MBA education with a customized curriculum for employees of such companies as Capital One. Raines explains that Capital One had input into developing customized curriculum for its employees, to better fit the needs of the employees and Capital One.
Dr. Raines says he sees much opportunity in Nashville for similar programs at Belmont.
"It's an exciting opportunity for me to be a part of an institution that is continually striving to improve the quality of education it provides to students, its facilities, and the quality of scholar educators it is attracting to campus," Raines said. "My wife Judy and I are ecstatic about moving to Nashville and becoming an integral part of the community.
Dr. Raines' first book, Economists On the Stock Market: Speculative Theories of Stock Market Fluctuations, co-authored with University of Alabama economist Dr. Charles Leathers, was published in the spring of 2000 – timely, as the dot-com-driven stock market bubble was beginning to collapse. His second book, also co-authored with Leathers, The Economic Institutions of Higher Learning: Economic Theories of University Behavior, was published last month.
In addition, Dr. Raines has published articles in journals that include the Journal of Economic Issues, the Journal of Economic Studies, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, the History of Political Economy, the International Review of Economics and Business and the Journal of Business Ethics.
Dr. Raines earned his B.A. in economics from the University of Alabama in 1973, while also playing football for the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant on a football scholarship from 1969-73. He was named to the All-SEC Academic Team in 1972. Dr. Raines completed his M.A. in 1976, and his Ph.D. in 1983.
At the University of Richmond, Dr. Raines was awarded the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award, and the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business Award for Scholarly Activities. In 1989, Dr. Raines was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar and taught for a year at The College of Bahamas in Nassau.
In 1990, he led a group of 15 engineers and economists to the former Soviet Union to provide expertise in Russia's transition to privatize its economy. His current research interests include theories of the stock market in economics, privatization programs in Eastern Europe and Russia, and the evolution of economic institutions.
Belmont University is the only private university in Tennessee offering both undergraduate and graduate business and accounting programs that are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the most prestigious business school accrediting organization. The Massey School is a fully-accredited, part-time graduate business school.
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