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Show !TUESPAY, AUGUST ll, 2000 UN IVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS PAGE 3 I College splits; communication joins Humanities BY RHIANNON BENT SENIOR STAFF WRITER Templin said it was a little disappointing to lose the synergies between communication and business, but it is still possible for those synergies to occur in different On July 1, the communication department found a new colleges. home as one of four departments within the College of "I felt very good about the change, personally and Humanities and Social Sciences. professionally. There will be additional work and HSS Dean Rodney Decker said the challenges, but overall it is a very positive communication faculty voted and experience,· said Decker. petitioned to move from the Regarding advantages, Decker said College of Business, students will be benefitted as they look for Technology and allied majors and minors since the HSS Communication to HSS. He said disciplines are closely associated and the curriculum and expectations the methodology and faculty of the commuAication department preparation have been quite similar. were more closely related to the As far as disadvantages go, disciplines in HSS. Decker said there are always Frain Pearson, communication concerns with growth and it has department chair and professor of to be managed carefully. communication, said communication There are now 1Oadditional has commonalities with business and faculty members and 300 social sciences, but HSS is a more additional majors in HSS logical place to be. with the move of "It's an extremely small step in a big communication. process,· said Brian Heuett. assistant "As ldhg as professor of communication. He [resources] are Cart explained the change was the beginning adequate to provide retnp/in of the realignment of departments on oecl<er necessary programs and meet campus to be placed in their proper RodneY the expectations of faculty and students, I think it will colleges. be a win-win situation,• said Decker. He added that Business and Technology Dean Cart Templin said he concern over resources is not unique to the had mixed feelings about the change. "I have really communication department; there is concern in every enjoyed working with the communication department and college. it's been nice to have them as representatives of the Also, -since there is a significantly larger graduating · college. There are things that are sad, but I'd rather have class, With more family and friends attending, it may the faculty where they are most comfortable. I don't see it necessitate a change with holding graduation in the as a rejection." auditorium, said Decker. No curriculum changes have been made since the move, but Decker said there probably will be some through the normal process. • There also has not been a proposed name change for the college.Templin said most of the changes will be transparent to students. Decker added there is no need for concern and the change is beneficial to students. Decker said he is in the process of requesting a Master of Arts in Communication. It has already gone through the Dean's Council and it has yet to go through the President's Council, the Board of Trustees and the Board of Regents. Decker said he hoped the program would be available for fall of 2001 . In the College of Business and Technology, Templin's span of control is now smaller, but there is another change in the college. The department of business is now the School of Business. Templin said the new name is more prestigious. It's also an organizational change. There are divisions, but not departments. in the School of Business. "We're starting to get big enough that it makes sense to be a School of Business. It's bigger than a department,· said Templin. . Templin said there has been talk that the technology department may move from its current home into the College of Science, but nothing has been decided. Templin said if there was going to be change, it probably wouldn't occur for a year. Various SUU personnel c ha~ge titles, positions BY JESSICA BLONQUIST OF THE JOURNAL STAFF "It's a big responsibility. How are we going to make sure that all of the students have a great experience here," said Mindy Benson, the new director of student activities. Many changes have occurred on campus this year, including switches in titles, positions and several retirements. Benson takes the place of former director, Alex Herzog, after he resigned from the position in March to work on his doctorate at UNLV. She said she is excited and has performed some of the same duties before; but this is an expansion of her previous position as the Sharwan Smith Center manager. For those potential students who think SUU might not be the place for them, she said, "The personal experience ~i, here provides more dy Be,,~ opportunity to grow." She added, ·we need to make a huge first impression." Neal Cox has been named as the new dean of students and still coordinates Convocations. Harman Bonniksen retired after working for nine years at SUU apd two years as dean of students. Cox was the director of public relations and will be replaced by Dean O'Driscoll, fonner director of public relations at Snow College. o,, Shawn Herzog resigned as academic support coordinator. She is now teaching for Clark County School District in Nevada. Her replacement is John Shafer who graduated from SUU with a master's of education degree and has worked for the Iron County School District. D'EI Beatty has a new title as the director of student involvement. He was previously the coordinator of the Entertainment Bureau and Acclamation. Perry Stewart retired from the po~ition of art department chair. Brian Hoover, who acted as assistant professor of art, replaces Stewart as the chair. Hoover has been employed at SUU since 1995. Henry Brimmer joins the art department as the new assistant professor in the creation of a graphic design program. Two professors at SUU have retired, but are returning for one more year. Since 1965, Lyman Munford has been at SUU. He plans to teach for his 36th year as professor of drafting technology. Lee Morrell has also retired, but will continue as professor of chemistry for his 35th year at SUU. Marlon Steele worked in plant operations as locksmith, carpenter, painter and others at SUU since 1970. Ben Johnson takes his position as locksmith. (continued on page 16) . 1 • As students gather in the SUU Bookstore to buy textbooks for the semester, Erin O'Shea, a freshman communication major from Helper, Utah, ponders over her potential purchase. |