New department chairs attended orientation sessions
last week in the University Center Laurel Room on
the 1604 Campus.
Colleges Make Transition from Division to Departmental Structure
(Aug. 23, 2001)--One year after UTSA reorganized into six colleges, the university's second major transition from academic divisions to departments is now complete. This phase of the restructuring created 32 discipline-based departments and the School of Architecture.
One division in the College of Education and Human Development will retain its divisional designation, bilingual bicultural studies, which has an interdepartmental mission.
"It is gratifying for those within the university community who worked so diligently on the reorganization to see this second major piece falling into place," said Guy Bailey, provost and vice president for academic affairs.
"The transition to departments will take a bit of adjustment for all of us, but let's keep in mind our ultimate goal of elevating the university to the next level of excellence."
Training and orientation for new departmental chairs was held recently at the 1604 Campus.
The new departments and their chairs are as follows:
College of Business
Dean: Bruce Bublitz
Accounting: Sandra Welch
Economics: Lila Truett
Finance: Keith Fairchild
Information systems: Glenn Dietrich
Management: Dennis Duchon
Management science and statistics: Jerome Keating
Marketing: Joel Saegert
College of Education and Human Development
Interim Dean: Blandina "Bambi" Cardenas
Division of bilingual bicultural studies: Robert Milk, director
Counseling, educational psychology, adult and higher education: Larry Golden
Educational leadership and policy studies: Betty Merchant
Health and kinesiology: Curtis Hart
Interdisciplinary studies and curriculum and instruction: Miriam Martinez
College of Engineering
Dean: Zorica Pantic-Tanner
Civil and environmental engineering: Alberto Arroyo
Electrical and computer engineering: Parimel Patel
Mechanical engineering and biomechanics: Amir Karimi
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Dean: Alan Craven
School of Architecture: Julius Gribou, director
Anthropology: Dan Gelo
Art and art history: James Broderick
Communication: Steve Levitt
English, classics and philosophy: Linda Woodson
History: Wing Chung Ng
Modern languages and literatures: Santiago Daydi-Tolson
Music: Joe Stuessy
Political science and geography: Richard Gambitta
Psychology: Richard Wenzlaff
Sociology: Jeff Halley
College of Public Policy (name change effective Sept. 1, see related
article)
Dean Jesse Zapata
Criminal justice: Patricia Harris
Public administration: Heywood Sanders
College of Sciences
Dean: William Scouten
Biology: Neal Guentzel
Chemistry: Judith Walmsley
Computer science: pending
Earth and environmental sciences: Weldon Hammond
Mathematics: Raymond Baird (interim)
Physics and astronomy: Patrick Nash