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Departments talk transition to new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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By Brooke Schwartz and Cassie Buchman Administration Reporter and Editor-in-Chief | @ DEN_News
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Brock Kukman, a senior elementary education major, catches a baseball Thursday evening in the South Quad.
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Hannah Brezinski, a sophomore sociology major, laughs while playing catch Thursday evening in the South Quad.
details being worked out. “Although (the College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Sciences) have a lot of similarities, they come with different procedures and that’s going to The combination of the College of have to be sorted out,” Klarup said. Arts and Humanities with the College Anita Shelton, dean of College of Arts of Sciences has departments in it talk- and Humanities, said the college is still ing about how they will collaborate and in a bit of a holding pattern until the transition into one entity. Board of Trustees approves the reorganiIn the reorganization plan recent- zation, though she and the dean of the ly announced by Provost Jay Gatrell, College of Sciences have been commuthe College of Liberal Arts and Sciences nicating. would be the biggest of the four colleges. Because they are anticipating the In it would be two schools, (the board’s approval, the deans are planning School of Fine and Performing Arts and in May to start joint meetings with deans the School of Communication and Jour- and chairs in both of the colleges. nalism) as well as the history, philosoOne issue to be looked at is making phy, foreign language, English, political sure there is sufficient staff in place for science, economics, psychology, biology, the new dean’s office. The provost has physics, geology/geography, math and said no staff positions will be eliminatcomputer science, sociology, anthropol- ed, but some will be reassigned to supogy and criminology and chemistry de- port academic departments, registrar and partments. the new College of Health and Human Gatrell plans to have the college com- Services. bination implemented by July 1. HowAs dean, Shelton said she wants to ever, he has said the coming academic make sure the support staff is not overyear is a “process” where things can be loaded with work as a result of the coltweaked if needed. leges combining. “It’s a year of transition,” Gatrell said. “There’s a lot of work that has to be “(It) requires shared governance, open done,” Shelton said. “There’s Doudna to and frank discussions.” run, the Tarble Arts Center, in this colThe current operating budgets for all lege now we’re adding another nine or so four colleges are $75,000 each for a to- departments from sciences—it increases tal of $300,000. Future budgets will be the workload a lot.” based on the total number of faculty in Collaboration between different discithe college, Gatrell said. plines will become easier in the new col“One of the reasons we’re talking lege, especially when it comes to ongoabout adjusting budgets (is that we’re) ing initiatives such as the ones in health making sure resources are there for ev- communications and the medical huery faculty member in every program to manities, she said. Shelton said whoevthrive,” Gatrell said. er the dean is will have to learn about The existing resources for academic the discipline they are not already famildepartments themselves will not be im- iar with. pacted. The only thing that would be“It’s definitely a process of adjusting come a question of redistribution or re- and adapting, but I think that the physallocation would be how the dean’s office ical spaces remaining for the most part is funded, according to Gatrell. the same is going to help with maintainThe dean of the College of Liber- ing the cultures that people are accusal Arts and Sciences’ office is set to be in tomed to,” Shelton said. Doudna. Two associate deans will corSteven Daniels, chair of the physics respond to the College of Arts and Hu- department, and Diane Burns, chair of manities and the College of Sciences. the geology/geography department, both Doug Klarup, the dean of the College have backgrounds in schools that had a of Sciences, said hurdles to the plan will liberal arts and science-based college. come in the form of the administrative Transition, page 5
Professors to discuss Trump’s policies in Middle East, Asia By Andrew Paisley Campus Reporter | @Andrew_Paisley1 Discussions on President Donald Trump’s policies on the Middle East and East Asia will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Monday at Booth Library in the 4440 Conference Room. Jinhee Lee, chair of the Asian Studies department, along with finance professor Candra Chahyadi and history professor Brian Mann will be leading the discussions as part of Asian Heritage
Month. “I think it is critical for our students to have awareness of the current U.S. policies toward the outside world and their implications and practical consequences, especially toward Asian and Middle Eastern countries,” Lee said. The panel will provide a venue where our university community members can come together and share their knowledge and views on this important topic, according to Lee. “I chose Professor Mann to be a panelist be-
cause as a history professor, he has done a lot of studying on Iran and the Middle East,” Lee said. “Dr. Chahyadi was chosen because he will inform us about the implications of Trump’s policies on both local and international finance and economy, with a focus on Asia.” As a professor of Asian studies, Lee will discuss policies on Korea and East Asia. Mann plans to discuss the history of some of the conflict that is going on in the Middle East today.
“The Trump administration has faced challenges and will continue to face them as it tries to formulate some sort of coherent foreign policy in the region,” Mann said. “It is a difficult task for any administration, but more so this one because of the fact that no one involved in foreign policy stays for more than a few months in the administration, before being fired or resigning.”
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