In recent weeks I have heard and frequently read statements that draw conclusions about the impact of increasing class size and failure to reappointment lecturers that confound the impact of the rescissions caused by the budget reduction imposed on CAS and the impact of the UVM’s need to have CAS reach by fall a faculty/student […]
Accepted Student Days, Registration and Orientation
Next week our current students will begin to make their course selection for Fall ’09 and soon the members of the class of 2013 will do the same. I would like to take a moment to thank faculty members and department chairs in the College for all the work it took to build the liberal […]
Update on CAS Staff and Layoffs
I met with staff on March 17 to go over the same ground I will here, but I know that not everyone was available for that noon meeting, so I thought it made sense to blog a bit on this topic. I know that the prospect of layoffs is causing anxiety; my hope is that […]
Of Course Everybody Knows That the Dean Hates the Psych Department
One of the reasons there are so many movies about the painful experiences we all had in high school is that high school aged kids are unable to move beyond the personal. It’s all about their efforts to claim and defend identities they don’t know whether or not they actually want or will be able […]
Update on CAS Lecturers for 2009-2010
In any given year, increasing or decreasing student demand and changing curriculum as well as the need to fill instructional gaps created by the sabbaticals, parental leaves, junior leaves, and administrative assignments of tenure-track faculty have an impact on the number of full-time and part-time lecturers hired by the College of Arts and Sciences. This […]
Announcing College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Fellows
NOTA BENE: Before I post my second blog, I would like to state clearly that although the first blog was rather formal, my goal in future is to use the blog to alert faculty and staff of College events and decisions as they are being planned and to use it as well to respond to […]
Constancy Amidst Chaos
During times of organizational upheaval, it is easy to think that everything about the organization is in flux, that the predictability about environment humans need to not be emotionally and physiologically on alert around the clock will never be restored. Those are times when it is difficult to focus on constants, but in fact that […]