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Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business
Commitment to faculty, students and fund raising brings Florida State dean early legacy of success
By Pearl Stewart

Tallahassee, Fla.

One morning about three years ago, Dr. Melvin Stith brushed past a student who seemed to need assistance in his outer office. When the dean of the Florida State University College of Business stopped to ask the young man if he could help him, the student asked who he was. “I’m the dean,” Stith replied. “Yeah, right,” the undergraduate business student shot back.



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