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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The Dean's September



'The dean of the University of San Diego's business school – who is in the midst of establishing a program stressing ethics and responsibility – has been arrested in suburban Cleveland and charged with complicity to possess drugs.

Police said Mohsen Anvari, 57, was found meeting with a drug dealer at a hotel.

Anvari was arrested by Beachwood, Ohio, detectives last weekend and charged with a felony Monday as part of “an ongoing drug investigation.” He posted an unspecified amount in bail and was released, police there said.

But Police Chief Mark Sechrist, in the town on Cleveland's eastern edge, wouldn't release details regarding the type and quantity of the controlled substance involved, or what information led to Anvari's arrest.

... In February, Anvari said USD would add a full-time MBA program this fall, a 16-month course that would be limited to 40 students annually. The program, he said, would stress ethics and social responsibility.

“That is in reaction to what is happening in business today – the scandals and the legislative and regulatory responses to them,” Anvari said at the time.

“That goes to the heart of business education today, and we want to make sure that the people we graduate from our program are well-grounded in those issues.”'



via inside higher education