It was Dean Colangelo's birthday on Thursday! In addition to that exciting news, I had my first meeting with him on Oct 8 and had another brief meeting with him Oct 30.
What does Dean Colangelo do?
He is the Executive Officer of the Sam Fox School and the deans of architecture and museum report to him. He also represents the Sam Fox School to University Council. Is also concerned with the financial stability of the school.
In his day-to-day schedule, he meets with other deans, has cabinet meetings with includes the directors of graduate programs, and is working on how to structure the new curriculum (mentioned in next section).
What administrative news is there?
In 2011, the Sam Fox School is going to begin a "shared first year program". In this new program, Art and Architecture students will have more exchange between them and symmetry between their programs. For instance, a student can take Sculpture and Architecture their first year. A drastic change is that students can work with faculty to design interdisciplinary programs. Majors start in the sophmore year. The Art and Architecture staff will become more intertwined -- for instance an Architecture teacher can teach a Drawing class. It will also be easier to switch between Art and Architecture schools because of transferrable credits. There will be more concrete information about this program after the faculty retreat today.
In the future, the Sam Fox School is looking to implement a Bachelor of Design program. And in the Fall of 2010, a Master of Landscape Architecture program will be implemented in the Graduate School. The MFA program will also include Design. And an art program will be joining the archictecture program in Buenos Aires.
Where does the Sam Fox School stand in relation to the rest of Wash U?
The deans in Sam Fox work constantly with the deans in the other schools. Dean Colangelo is examining how more collaboration can occur between the Olin School of Business and the Sam Fox School, that is collaboration between design and entrepeneurship.
It was really great meeting with Dean Colangelo. If you have any questions or ideas about what we discussed, feel free to ask! And if you want me to bring up anything to Dean Colangelo in our next Liaison Meeting, let me know.
Happy Halloween!
Kelsey
kelseye@samfox.wustl.edu
