Since August 2017, I have been an Associate Dean at Michigan State University. For months, I have been reading of the accusations against Larry Nassar in the press. I watched the testimonies of the courageous women during his trial in Ingham County, and on February 1, I attended the Town Hall on campus with Trustee Mosallam.
Professor Jason Merrill has been appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. The 12-month appointment is effective August 16, 2017, through August 15, 2018.
Sonja Fritzsche, Professor of German and Chair of MSU’s Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, has been appointed Associate Dean for Faculty and Administration for the College of Arts & Letters, effective January 1, 2017, and will continue in her current role as Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages…
The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University has announced the creation of its Faculty Summer Fellowship Program with a commitment of $300,000 over summer 2016 to pilot the research incentive program. Individual tenure-system faculty can apply for up to $10,000. As stated by Dean Christopher P. Long in the College’s 2015 Fall Planning Letter, the new…