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...complaints were relayed to Knowles, who removed Phelan from her chair without warning and installed a proven administrator, Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, after Phelan refused to resign. The department faculty members were not officially notified of the decision for nearly three weeks. At this point, the permanent professors met with Knowles but were told that the exact substance of the complaints had to remain confidential...
...write on behalf of 22 other students in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). We were appalled by the portrayal of the department presented in your article regarding the dismissal of Ellen Phelan as department chair and the appointment of Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to that position (News, "Staff Complaints Led Knowles to Replace VES Chair," May 16). Our experiences in the department have been overwhelmingly positive, largely due to the great talent and generosity of the faculty and staff criticized in the article...
...address the real issues surrounding the change of department chair. We stand by our faculty and the staff, both old and new, and while we have been a bit unsettled by recent rumors, we are prepared to continue to build the program with newly appointed Department Chair Marjorie Garber...
...Garber is a longtime veteran of FAS bureaucracy, and has a reputation for academic professionalism devoid of the laissez-faire art world attitude that Phelan brought...
...Department faculty say that Garber has already started to clamp down on the administrative confusion that Phelan and Killip presided over. The Carpenter Center has already completed its list of guest lecturers for next year, the earliest it has done so in recent memory. And course information, though still late, now appears to be on track...