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Coast Watcher

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Hwy 90 wrote:

My recollection is that the expansion of the coast campus to fresh/soph instruction would allow the hiring of more faculty and an expansion in the number of majors. I don't know if that's happened or not.

Yeah it happened. The thing is that new faculty took a look around, asked wtf? and booked.


In the CoAL new hires were in positions that emphasized teaching in a writing across the curiculum environment, you know, a central focus on creating critical literacy and critical thinking skills in all disciplines, or at least as many as possible. That went to smash when Coast scheduling was put in the hands of ignorant, disinterested USMH chairs and deans, who had no intention of giving enough of a damn to do the coordination of classes the Coast's plan for writing across the curriculum, or WAC, required. The Coast English faculty were key in planning and carrying out the WAC initiative.


Of seven profs and visting profs in the Coast English department, three left this year. Their offices have been taken over by IDV faculty, those golden haired boys of the new order. A colleague in that department tells me the hall that used to be the home of his department now feels like an occupied country. 


 


 



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Eye of the Coast wrote:

Are you sure that Library Science, Child Development, and Psychology are listed as being in CoEP at USM-GC? That would be an unusual home for any of them wouldn't it?
That is where they are in H-Burg also. Psychology has been part of the CoEP forever (hence, College of Education AND Psychology). The education folks would like to forget that, however. LIS and CFS are new members, but they are actually fitting in nicely.

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coastliner

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If the Hattiesburg faculty and the Hattiesurg community does not recognize that YOUR fuure is on the COAST as a comprehensive institution....pity you.....and then be relegated to a DSU. dsu..usm...dsu...usm.....

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Eye of the Coast

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CoEP'er wrote:

 Psychology has been part of the CoEP forever . The education folks would like to forget that, however. LIS and CFS are new members, but they are actually fitting in nicely.
Are you saying that PSY doesn't fit but LIS and CFS do?

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Eye of the Coast wrote:

CoEP'er wrote:  Psychology has been part of the CoEP forever . The education folks would like to forget that, however. LIS and CFS are new members, but they are actually fitting in nicely. Are you saying that PSY doesn't fit but LIS and CFS do?
Good question. Psy is perhaps more out of place than CFS and LIS. It is extraordinarily rare to have several of the psych programs that we have in a college of ed, and programs such as experimental and clinical have zip to do with education. Counseling psy is a traditional fit for education colleges, though (school psych is 50/50). LIS and CFS have some NCATE-related functions, and CFS has some relationship with psych, so it is a reasonable fit (Where else would CFS go? COH is probably a worse fit). LIS--maybe back in the now named COAL, but that is no better a fit that CoEP.  

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