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Date: Mar 2, 2005

another departure

Date: Mar 2, 2005

who is it?

Date: Mar 2, 2005

Wheeler

Date: Mar 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: sad
"Wheeler"

Who is he?

Date: Mar 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Wheeler Deeler
"Who is he?"

Chair of English

Date: Mar 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: He is...
"Chair of English"

Would English be able to convince somebody to take over?

Date: Mar 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: Smooth Talking Man
"Would English be able to convince somebody to take over?"

Can Jameela check-in with the board and confirm Wheeler is leaving and who will be the next chair? Jameela, are you out there? I'll buy you a "cherry diet coke"........

Date: Mar 2, 2005

Jameela Lares, Anne Wallace, Ellen Weinauer, Will Watson have all demonstrated leadership qualities to readers of this board. Which probably means they're perpetual personae non gratae to El Pood, the evil endomorph of Arts and Letters . . .

Date: Mar 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: insurgent x
" Jameela Lares, Anne Wallace, Ellen Weinauer, Will Watson have all demonstrated leadership qualities to readers of this board."

A part-time graduate assistant should be able to do the job quite handily. As time goes on and more and there are more and more faculty departures, there will probably be less and less to do anyway.

Date: Mar 2, 2005

Can't we just outsource this position to another university? Surely some other institution has a faculty member who will do the job online!

Date: Mar 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: Chairs 'R Us
"Can't we just outsource this position to another university? Surely some other institution has a faculty member who will do the job online!"

I suggest that we bring back Noel Polk. He'd keep the troops in line. Didn't he say he would accept just 15 minutes of work time in the president's office. Then he should be able to handle English in half that time.

Date: Mar 2, 2005

David Wheeler is, in fact, leaving, for a chair's job at Armstrong Atlantic University in Savannah, GA next year. He told the English department earlier today. Also leaving the department is his wife, Mary Villeponteaux, although, as I understand, she will delay her departure by a year.

Will Watson
Associate Professor of English

Date: Mar 2, 2005

The Titanic jokes were meant to be light and humorous. But now they don't seem to be very funny.

Date: Mar 2, 2005

That's about 10 in just the past few days.

Date: Mar 3, 2005

This is a body blow to the English Department.

Date: Mar 3, 2005

I have heard the rumor--and haven't read about it on this message board, though I have been kind of busy this week--that the MA in English is being terminated. Is this true? If it is, it is certainly scary. This would be understable because the many departures have decreased the number of excellent faculty in one of the truly unique programs at the university, but it would also be a crime. Hope I have heard wrong.

Date: Mar 3, 2005

the CL really botched this one. The MS degree in english was terminated, but not the MA degree. English hasn't given an MS degree in english for years.