PROCEEDINGS DEDICATION: Robert Dean

What Happens When the Dean Says , ‘ No ’ ? By Robert E . Emerick

n recent years, reappointment, tenure, and promotion decisions have become increasingly problematic and contentious. My own service on a number of departmentand college-level “reappointment-tenure-promotion” committees has made me increasingly cynical about these putative “democratic” decision-making processes. I began to believe that faculty time and effort on such committees was actually “bus...

Reflections of FEC - Dr . Robert Holte ( Vice Dean , Chair of FEC )

This article is normally written by the Dean, Dr. Gregory Taylor, but this is a special year in which many of his duties, including this one, have been delegated to the Vice Dean to allow Dr. Taylor to focus on the Faculty’s unit review, the completion of the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, and external relations. It was also a special year because it was the first year in whic...

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