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Message from Dean Kenneth Teitelbaum
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Welcome Back!
It’s wonderful to feel the excitement and positive energy of the start of a new academic year. I know we’ve all read and heard a lot about budget difficulties, enrollment decline, retention concerns, and the like. But as real and consequential as these problems may be, they recede in my mind when I look at our College and consider all that we’re doing and accomplishing. It’s like there are storm clouds ahead (and perhaps overhead), and it may even be raining on us, but it’s not preventing us from continuing to engage in excellent work, in and out of the classroom. We continue to enhance and extend our scholarly, pedagogical and service efforts and really enjoy it (rain, overcast skies and all). I hope you share that feeling with me.
This monthly newsletter, COEHS Update, started in January 2008, in large part to help make our activities and accomplishments more apparent to those in and out of our College. I’m frankly amazed sometimes by all the terrific things that are going on. Please remember that the success of this newsletter, in large part as a community-building initiative, depends on you sharing information with me, via your chairs/directors.
| “This monthly newsletter . . . started in January 2008 . . . to help make our activities and accomplishments more apparent. " |
I do want to make two changes to COEHS Update this year. As you know it is distributed electronically to all faculty and staff in the College and it is also placed on our College website. Jeanette Johnson helps format the newsletter for me and she has some plans for changing the way it looks. But I’m also intending this year to have some (black-and-white) hard copies made so that more people, not on our faculty and staff listservs, can have better access to it as well. We’ll send copies to each of the academic units, hopefully to be made available in a public space, so that students and visitors can read the newsletter also.
This leads me to the second change I’d like to make, which is to provide more news about our undergraduate and graduate students. While we have certainly highlighted information about our students, as is the case in this issue, I’d like us to include more of it. And again, for that I have to rely on all of you to submit the details of which students are doing what, where and when.
There are a number of events taking place during the next month. I hope you can join me for as many of them as possible. And best wishes for a great fall semester!
Upcoming Events
We had a wonderful college-wide Welcome Back Picnic on Tuesday, September 1, from 2:00-5:00, outside the Wham/Pulliam Breezeway. The weather was glorious; the food and drink were delicious; the music was lively; the door prizes were fun to give out (and no doubt to receive); and the crowd was, well, almost overwhelming. We estimate that at least 550 people attended, including 450 students and 100 faculty and staff! There are many people to thank for making this event such a successful one, especially Associate Dean Brad Colwell and his wife Mary Colwell, Development Officer Dave Ardrey, Recruitment Coordinator Natalie Branca, and Dean’s Office staff Jodi Miley and Dan Watts.
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