Search committee named for A&S dean

Timothy K. Barnekov is chairing the search committee for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

8:30 a.m., July 8, 2004--A 12-member search committee has been appointed to recruit a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware, to replace Mark A. Huddleston, who has accepted the presidency of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, effective Aug. 1.

The national search will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled, Provost Dan Rich said.

Rich expressed his thanks to the members of the search committee, which will be chaired by Timothy K. Barnekov, dean of the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy, for “their willingness to undertake this important recruitment effort,” and he urged all members of the campus to nominate candidates for the position.

The College of Arts and Sciences, UD’s largest college, is organized under the dean, with three associate deans responsible for departments and programs in three general areas: arts and humanities (eight departments and four programs and centers), social science and history (six departments and 12 programs and centers) and natural science and mathematics (10 departments and seven programs and centers).

In 2003, enrollment was 7,985, with 6,832 undergraduates and 1,153 graduate students.

Other members of the search committee are Stephen A. Bernhardt, Kirkpatrick Chair of Writing in the Department of English; Virginia Bradley, chairperson of the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications; Philip Broadbridge, chairperson of the Department of Mathematical Sciences; Maxine Colm, vice president for administration; George Hadjipanayis, Richard B. Murray Professor and chairperson of the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Wunyabari Maloba, associate professor of history and chairperson of the President’s Commission on Racial and Cultural Diversity; Robin W. Morgan, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Charles G. Riordan, chairperson of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Havidan Rodriguez, professor of sociology and director of the Disaster Research Center; Karen Rosenberg, chairperson of the Department of Anthropology; and Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures and director of Latin American Studies.

Conrado (Bobby) M. Gempesaw, vice provost for academic programs and planning and international programs since 1999, has been named interim dean of the college, until a new dean is found.

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