Word: deans
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...major change expected in the FAS landscape is the appointment of a new associate dean for affirmative action. The administrator will be a tenured professor charged with overseeing the faculty's affirmative action efforts...
Spence said in interviews last spring that he would begin to implement the new affirmative action plan over the summer, but he has yet to announce the appointment of an associate dean. He said last week that he would make an announcement soon...
Will the new dean be an iconoclast, prepared to be a vocal advocate for affirmative action in a faculty often resistant to change? Or will the administrator be a faculty insider, knowledgeable enough to nudge colleagues in the direction of gradual change? No one knows, and Spence is remaining tight-lipped...
...Last year we were aware of what was going on," says Virginia L. Mackay-Smith, assistant dean of first-year students. "We were concerned about what this was going to mean for a student's academic progress. We decided to do things that we hope will make it easier for freshmen--and a little more straightforward...
...There need to be increased efforts to try to urge on students the importance of the requirement," says Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...