{"id":14886,"date":"2026-11-05T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:28:44","slug":"business-dean-hofrenning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2026\/11\/05\/business-dean-hofrenning\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella Koutroumanes Hofrenning named dean and director of the Augsburg School of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Stella-Hofrenning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Stella-Hofrenning.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Stella Hofrenning, who is wearing a blue shirt and a pearl necklace, leaning against a tree\" width=\"158\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Stella-Hofrenning.png 158w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Stella-Hofrenning-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>Professor Stella Koutroumanes Hofrenning has been appointed as the Jeff Nodland \u201977 and Becky Bjella-Nodland \u201979 Endowed School Director and Dean of the Augsburg University School of Business. In this role, she will lead the development of the school&#8217;s strategic plan, hiring several new faculty and convening the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/business-advisory-council\/\">School of Business Advisory Council<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hofrenning has been an Augsburg faculty member for more than 25 years. During that time, she has served in multiple previous leadership roles, including as economics department chair and undergraduate curriculum director for the School of Business. Since August, she has served as acting school director and dean of the School of Business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDr. Hofrenning offers the mix of strategic leadership, collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and commitment to students, faculty, and staff that the School of Business needs today,\u201d said Paula O\u2019Loughlin, provost and senior vice president for academic and student affairs. \u201cWe look forward to the ways she will build on the strong legacy of the School\u2019s founding director, Dr. Jeanne Boeh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hofrenning holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Illinois Chicago and a master\u2019s in management from Troy State University. Before joining Augsburg, she worked as an economist for both the state and federal government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The three-year appointment begins immediately. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Stella Koutroumanes Hofrenning has been appointed as the Jeff Nodland \u201977 and Becky Bjella-Nodland \u201979 Endowed School Director and Dean of the Augsburg University School of Business. In this role, she will lead the development of the school&#8217;s strategic plan, hiring several new faculty and convening the School of Business Advisory Council.\u00a0 Hofrenning has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14894,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions\/14894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}