Fuerst joined the KU School of Business as dean in 2000 after serving as associate dean of Texas A&M’s Lowry Mays School of Business, where he had also been a faculty member since 1979. During his tenure as dean, the School of Business added five majors: finance, supply chain management, management and leadership, marketing, and information systems, as well as the business minor and the master’s degree with a concentration in supply chain management and logistics with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth.

Under his leadership, tenured faculty grew by 44 percent and enrollment increased by more than 20 percent. Feurst also pioneered academic programs, such as the Center for Entrepreneurship and Institute for International Business. He holds second-longest tenure of any business dean.

Feurst currently serves as a professor of information systems at the School of Business, where his research and teaching interests include emerging information technologies, management information systems strategic planning and systems analysis and design.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Knox College, his master’s from Northern Illinois University and his doctorate from Texas Tech University.