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Dart leaving, Linguistics program sticking around
Christina Esposito hopes to gain tenure-track spot, potential majors breathe a sigh of relief with the department off the chopping block
By: Hattie Stahl, Managing Editor
Issue date: 4/28/06 Section: News
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After years of ambivalence over the state of the Linguistics Department, students can now relax. Faced last spring with the prospect of its major disappearing, the department has hired a replacement for retiring Professor Sarah Dart for the 2006-2007 academic year. The department, pending approval, will begin a search for a tenure-track replacement this summer.
The renewed standing of the department follows a faculty vote last December in which faculty members voted almost unanimously to approve a newly structured Linguistics program.
When Dart announced last spring that she planned to retire at the end of this semester, she submitted an allocations request for a tenure-track replacement.
“At that time we were bounced back and forth by EPAG,” Dart said. “I very much did not want to kill the program by leaving, so I'm very pleased that the program has been continued.”
The Educational Policy and Governance Committee (EPAG), which reviews all curricular decisions, worked with the Linguistics Department throughout last fall. According to chair Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, when Linguistics Department chair John Haiman and Dart proposed a newly re-designed Linguistics major curriculum, EPAG approved it. The proposal was then presented to the faculty at large.
According to Haiman, the December faculty vote was almost unanimous in favor of approving the department's newly structured program. “We felt very threatened [before the vote],” Haiman said. “And we feel very relieved now.”
Before Haiman opens the search for a tenure-track position this summer the department must first receive allocation approval from EPAG. According to Kurth-Schai, the allocations process is currently underway, and the Linguistics Department will learn in early May if it can hire to fill a tenure-track position.
The renewed standing of the department follows a faculty vote last December in which faculty members voted almost unanimously to approve a newly structured Linguistics program.
When Dart announced last spring that she planned to retire at the end of this semester, she submitted an allocations request for a tenure-track replacement.
“At that time we were bounced back and forth by EPAG,” Dart said. “I very much did not want to kill the program by leaving, so I'm very pleased that the program has been continued.”
The Educational Policy and Governance Committee (EPAG), which reviews all curricular decisions, worked with the Linguistics Department throughout last fall. According to chair Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, when Linguistics Department chair John Haiman and Dart proposed a newly re-designed Linguistics major curriculum, EPAG approved it. The proposal was then presented to the faculty at large.
According to Haiman, the December faculty vote was almost unanimous in favor of approving the department's newly structured program. “We felt very threatened [before the vote],” Haiman said. “And we feel very relieved now.”
Before Haiman opens the search for a tenure-track position this summer the department must first receive allocation approval from EPAG. According to Kurth-Schai, the allocations process is currently underway, and the Linguistics Department will learn in early May if it can hire to fill a tenure-track position.
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