He was an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1961 to 1964 and joined Cornell as an associate professor in 1964. He was named a full professor in 1968, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Accounting and Quantitative Analysis in 1977 and associate dean for academic affairs in 1983. He also served as acting dean from October 1994 through April 1995. Bowman received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1959 and his B. Architecture degree from Berkeley in 1964. He worked as an architect in San Francisco and Albuquerque, N.M., from 1966 to 1973 before coming to Cornell in 1973 as an assistant professor.
Nationwide searches are under way to fill the deanships.