New appointments include promotion of Nicole McAllister, and new directors of the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast, Ross Minority Program in Real Estate.
Dr. Dolores Conway has been appointed to the position of Director of the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecasting Project. Dolores is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the USC Marshall School of Business. In 1998, she won the USC University Associates award for excellence in teaching, USCs highest honor for career achievements in teaching. In recent years, she has similarly excelled as an instructor in the Masters in Real Estate Development Program, where she teaches the course in real estate market analysis. Dolores holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. She has taught previously at the University of Chicago. Dolores replaces Professor Raphael Bostic, the founding director of the Casden Forecast, who recently assumed the directorship of the Masters in Real Estate Development Program in the School of Policy, Planning and Development. Please join me in thanking Raphael for his important and significant contributions in the development and implementation of the Casden Forecast and in congratulating Dolores on her new appointment.
Robert Bridges has been appointed as the new Director of Executive Programs of the Lusk Center. In that capacity, he will work with colleagues at USC to enhance our executive programmatic offerings. Bob will also assume the role of managing co-director of the Ross Minority Program in Real Estate Finance and Development. Further, Bob has been appointed as Real Estate Curriculum Coordinator in the Department of Finance and Business Economics of the Marshall School. There he will seek to assure the quality of the Marshall School’s real estate curriculum, student advising, and club-related activities. Bob is an adjunct professor of Finance and Business Economics in the Marshall School, where he teaches many of the real estate electives; he also has been a leading member of the Ross Program faculty for many years. Bob specializes in economic feasibility analysis for real estate projects, involving the interplay of market economics, financial analysis, and site and building design. He has spent much of his career in private architectural practice, where he received a number of awards from the American Institute of Architects. Bob holds Bachelors of Architecture and Masters of Real Estate Development degrees from USC.
Finally, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Nicole McAllister to the position of Executive Director of Development and External Affairs of the USC Lusk Center. Over the past 5 years, Nicole has been an instrumental member of the Lusk Center leadership team and has contributed significantly to the funding, direction and expansion of the Center and its subsidiary programs. In her new role, Nicole will provide operational and budgetary oversight of Center activities while retaining her current development and external affairs responsibilities. Nicole holds a MBA from the USC Marshall School and a Masters Degree in Planning from UCLA. She worked previously in the non-profit housing sector.