David A. Whetten has been named new director of the Brigham Young University Faculty Center, announced President Merrill J. Bateman.
Whetten, who has served as the Jack Wheatley Professor of Organizational Behavior and director of the Center for the Studies of Values in Organizations at BYU, will take over from founding director Donald K. Jarvis, who is now serving as a mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The BYU Faculty Center, located in the Heber J. Grant Building on the south end of campus, was established in 1991 to improve teaching, scholarship, service and collegiality among BYU's nearly 1,500 faculty members.
Before joining the Marriott School of Management faculty in 1994, Whetten taught at the University of Illinois for 20 years.