Dean reports changes in Humanities
The Edwards College of Humanities has hired 19 new tenured/tenure-track faculty and 11 new full-time lecturers for the fall. Eight searches were unsuccessful, and 11 searches will start late this summer (a combination of carry-over searches, replacement searches and reallocated searches). During the course of this past year, more than 90 candidates were interviewed on campus for the positions, reports Dean William Richardson.So, where do all the new faculty go now? Half of the Department of Politics and Geography is now housed in Arcadia Hall, and the Department of History (including Anthropology and Archaeology) will move later this summer to Sands Hall. A number of lecturers in Communication will be relocating to the Foundation Center, along with the new student TV studio and other facilities. The Departments of History and Politics and Geography will move with the opening of the new classroom/office building that will be located between the Edwards and Wall buildings. Dan Ennis is serving as the faculty representative on the committee working with the architectural team designing the new classroom/office building.
There are two new department chairs, and one chair being reappointed for the upcoming academic year. Jim Everett comes from the University of Alaska Southeast to serve as chair of the Department of Communication. Carol Osborne will be the new chair of the Department of English. Matthieu Chan Tsin will serve one more year as chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures.
In the dean's office:
Rita Smith will be the new administrative specialist in the Office of the Dean. She worked previously as administrative assistant in the Department of Communication. Leyla Nardali will be the temporary office support person in the Dean’s Office. She was a political science major who graduated last year and served for four years as a student worker in both the political science and dean’s offices.
