[FUN_Mail] College of Arts & Sciences vs STEM College

[Judith Ogilvie]

We have a strong push from some members of the faculty in our College of Arts & Sciences to move to a College of Science & Engineering, leaving behind a College of Arts & Humanities (or if the College of Engineering doesn't want us, to form a separate College of Science, although I think this is unlikely). Do any of my fellow FUN colleagues have experience with the pros and cons? I should note that  right now, as a member of a Biology Dept, I am just interested in broad information as to what kinds of differences there might be in overall culture, recruitment, teaching loads, competition for resources, support for interdisciplinary programs, and everything that we are forgetting to think about. If this moves forward, I will have to address the impact on our Neuroscience Program, which is an interdisciplinary major run jointly with Biology and Psychology. I am sure that Biology would move with Sciences and most likely Neuroscience, but I expect that Psychology Department might be split on which way to go.  But we aren't there yet....


Thanks in advance for any thoughts or experience you might have.

-Judy Ogilvie



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Judith Mosinger Ogilvie, Ph.D., FARVO
Associate Professor of Biology

Co-Director, Neuroscience Program

Saint Louis University



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