Dean of the College of Business

College of Business, Office of the Dean

PLEASE NOTE:  Our College has offices in three locations.  Shipping addresses may vary depending on office location. 

DEAN’S OFFICE MAILING ADDRESS:                             
1301 College Avenue
GW HALL 209
Fredericksburg VA 22401-5300

Dean – George Washington Hall 213
  Lynne Richardson 540-654-2470 lynne.richardson@umw.edu
 Associate Dean for Faculty – Chandler 307
   Ken Machande  540-654-1457  kmachand@umw.edu
Office Manager – Chandler 306 and GW Hall 209
  Lucy Quann 540-654-1019
540-654-2470
lquann@umw.edu
Associate Dean for Operations and Outreach – Stafford North B229
  Kim Kinsley 540-286-8120 kkinsley@umw.edu
Associate Dean for Advising – Fredericksburg BUAD students
Chandler Hall, 314
  Sallie W. Braxton 540-654-1624 sbraxton@umw.edu
Assistant Dean for Advising - all Stafford COB students
Stafford South 153
  Janet J. Cropp 540-286-8020 jcropp@umw.edu

For questions about admissions, please contact the following offices first:

Undergraduate Admissions on the Fredericksburg Campus – 540-654-2000
Graduate Admissions on the Stafford Campus – 540-286-8088

   
  Lynne D. Richardson, Ph.D.Dean
ProfessorPh.D., University of Alabama
M.B.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham
B.B.A., University of Montevallo
   
  Lynne D. Richardson is the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Mary Washington. As the chief academic officer, she is the inaugural dean for the College of Business, created in 2010 to unite two distinct business programs that had served different populations of students on the Fredericksburg and Stafford campuses.Richardson comes to UMW from Mississippi State University where she served as the dean for the university’s College of Business for three and a half years and as a professor of marketing for four years. Prior to Mississippi State University, she was the dean of the Miller College of Business at Ball State University, where she also was a professor of marketing.In addition, she has served as associate dean for undergraduate programs and external relations for the School of Business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and as the director of the university’s MBA program for the university’s Graduate School of Management. She also has held positions at the Birmingham-Southern College and the University of North Alabama.Richardson received a doctorate in marketing from the University of Alabama, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in marketing, with highest honors, from the University of Montevallo.  She succeeds Larry Penwell, who was acting dean of the College of Business from July 2010 to July 2011.