The appointment of a Student Affairs vice president, the departure of the University Relations vice president, and the selection of two interim directors are among Northeastern’s recent top-level changes.

Edward Klotzbier, AS’87, the university’s communications director since 2001 and the interim Student Affairs vice president since September, has been chosen to permanently fill the latter post.

A lawyer who, before arriving at NU, was vice president and deputy director of the Boston Corporate Affairs department at Mellon Financial Corp., Klotzbier has also managed government relations and public affairs for the Boston law firm Palmer & Dodge.

Vice president for University Relations Sandra King, MBA’77, stepped down from her post after three and a half years to become Bentley College’s vice president for marketing, communication, and public affairs. At Northeastern, King spearheaded a marketing program that increased the university’s visibility locally, regionally, and nationally. University Publications director Robert Davison is currently serving as interim director of University Relations.

And William Kneeland, the university’s controller for thirteen years and twenty-four-year Finance department veteran, has been named interim treasurer, replacing longtime treasurer Joseph Murphy, who retired in October.

In other news, Ira Weiss, College of Business Administration dean since 1994, has said he will step down at the end of the academic year to join the accounting faculty. During his tenure, the college has won wide acclaim. Northeastern is listed in the most recent Business Week rankings of best MBA programs; the High-Tech MBA was ranked number one in the nation by Computer World magazine in 2001. At the undergraduate level, the bachelor of science in international business was ranked eighteenth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, and numbers of majors and the graduation rate have both surged.

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