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Fall 2002

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Comings & Goings

A university is by nature and intention a fluid place. Students spend four years here, then go on to something else, sometimes returning for a few more years. Faculty and staff, too, have their comings and goings. Programs and departments have their own life rhythms, exist for a time and are updated, rejuvenated, replaced. Bricks and mortar are finite too, with new administrative entities and structures rising to replace the old. © This year, with pressure from serious budget reductions and offers of early retirement, the university has seen more than its share of human comings and goings. Taking early retirement were 433 employees, including 73 faculty. By next fall, another 73 people, including 46 faculty will have left. Just a few of those people and their replacements are catalogued here.

Chancellor John Lombardi has taken over the job held during the interim by Marcellette Williams. Former Chancellor David Scott returns to teach in the physics department.

Ian McCaw ’87G, is replacing Bob Marcum as Athletic Director.
Andrew Effrat is filling in as dean for the School of Education, replacing Bailey Jackson.

Legal studies professor Janet Rifkin is replacing Glenn Gordon as interim dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Javier Cevallos has left to become president of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
Jo-Anne Vanin is now interim vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life; former Associate Dean of Students Gladys Rodriguez will serve as interim dean of students.

Paul Page ’66, ’71G, vice chancellor for administration and finance, has taken early retirement, and has been temporarily replaced by Joyce Hatch ’88G.

News Director Kay Scanlan, honorary alumna ’92, has taken early retirement.

Kevin Aiken has retired as director of Continuing Education; his job has been filled on an interim basis by Harlan Sturm, associate dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and professor of Spanish.

Professor Bruce Turkington is the new head of the department of mathematics and statistics, replacing the retiring Donald St. Mary.
Robert Duby has retired as head of the department of veterinary and animal sciences. His post is now held by Professor Samuel Black.

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics has nine new tenure-track faculty, the largest number in the university. The College of Engineering will see five new faculty, with two each in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the School of Education. The School of Nursing, the Isenberg School of Management and the College of Food and Natural Resources have each hired one new faculty member.

Meanwhile sports studies and hotel, restaurant and travel administration have been moved from the College of Food and Natural Resources to the Isenberg School of Management. And inside ISOM, the new $16 million Harold Alfond Management Center opened in September.

Both comings and goings have been made much easier for those who want to stay out of cars. The Norwottock Rail Trail, an 8.5-mile bike and pedestrian path from Northampton to Belchertown, has been extended by two miles for bikers, walkers and roller-bladers wanting to get to the university. Funded by Mass. Highways, with contributions from UMass and the Town of Amherst, the extension officially opened on Sept. 21.

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