Faculty
Alexander F. McCalla
Professor Emeritus of Management
Active efforts to organize the Graduate School of Administration, as it was known in 1981, were launched under the leadership of Alexander F. McCalla, professor of agricultural economics and former dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. McCalla was asked to serve as the founding dean of the nascent program from 1979 to 1981. Together with a 13-memberplanning committee, McCalla was responsible for the School’s initial organization and development.
In two years, McCalla and his team put in place a fully functioning organization with six full-time faculty, a curriculum and an entering class of 40 students.
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Stepping Back in Time: Former Deans Pen Histories of School
From its earliest days—indeed, during the many years between conception and founding—the Graduate School of Management has been a case study of turning ideas into action.
As UC Davis celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2009, GSM founding Dean Alex McCalla and former Dean Robert Smiley penned their perspectives about the Graduate School of Management’s early years and near three decades of growth.