Weems, Robert C.

In 1956 Robert C. Weems was appointed dean of the University of Nevada's newly created College of Business Administration. A Mississippi native, Weems had joined the faculty of the School of Business at Mississippi State University as an instructor after receiving his M.B.A. from Northwestern University. He later served as dean of the school, and received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1951. In 1977, after 22 years as dean of COBA at the University of Nevada, Reno, Dr. Weems retired and was made dean emeritus. After spending more than a decade into his retirement researching and writing, his history of the college, "Business for Nevada: The College of Business Administration at the University of Nevada, 1887-2000" was published in 2001 by the Black Rock Press.