Three deans at Ferris are set to retire after the spring 2010 semes­ter comes to an end.

Dean Matthew Klein, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean Ian Mathison, College of Pharmacy and Dean Thomas Oldfield, College of Engineering and Technology, are retir­ing from the university.

Klein and Oldfield will end their tenures at Ferris on June 30, 2010. Mathison will con­tinue through September 2010, as the College of Pharmacy is under­go­ing its reac­cred­i­ta­tion visit in early fall.

Klein began at Ferris in 1969 and has held mul­ti­ple posi­tions dur­ing his tenure, includ­ing assis­tant dean of stu­dent aca­d­e­mic affairs for gen­eral edu­ca­tion, asso­ciate dean of stu­dent aca­d­e­mic affairs, asso­ciate dean of aca­d­e­mic affairs, asso­ciate dean of admin­is­tra­tive affairs, and his cur­rent posi­tion as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Klein estab­lished the Dean’s Initiative Grant and the Card Wildlife Education Center.

Oldfield began at Ferris in 1978 and served as a fac­ulty mem­ber in the College of Arts and Sciences while teach­ing in the biol­ogy depart­ment. He served from 1999–2005 as asso­ciate vice pres­i­dent for aca­d­e­mic affairs and twice served as the interim vice pres­i­dent in 2003-04 and 2007-08. He became the dean of College of the Engineering and Technology in 2005. Oldfield enacted a major reor­ga­ni­za­tion of the College of Engineering Technology.

Ian Mathison is the longest-serving dean at Ferris as he arrived in 1977 and has ful­filled 34 years of ser­vice as a dean. Mathison has lead efforts that include $10 mil­lion in fundrais­ing that con­tin­ues to ben­e­fit stu­dents through schol­ar­ships and the college.

Klein said the uni­ver­sity would soon begin appoint­ing interim deans for all three col­leges between June and July. n