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Meet Chris Shook: New dean of UM School of Business Administration has own style

Chris Shook, the new dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Montana https://www.business.umt.edu/ , was sleeping in a monastery in Spain last fall at the age of 53, trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life.

Shook was walking the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage popular among people worldwide as a retreat for spiritual growth. He was on sabbatical from his previous job as a professor of business management at Auburn University, but he knew he didn’t want to commit to more years there. Somewhere along that long walk, he decided that a career in administration was his true calling.

"Going into administration is the way to make the biggest difference in people’s lives," he said. "I could write more articles or teach more classes, but that has a pretty limited impact."

For instance, he was talking to alumni at the governor’s barbecue earlier this year and was surprised at how little people know about the School of Business Administration. The school is ranked No. 1 in the conference for business schools and has the highest first-time pass rate for its CPA exam in the Northwest. He said people don’t know that 80 percent of the school’s students have internships before they graduate, and 82 percent have jobs or are admitted to graduate school within 90 days of graduating.

“We have a really strong foundation of people,” he said. “The faculty and staff are phenomenal.”

DAVID ERICKSON [email protected]

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