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Third candidate to speak at UH today

Cougar News Staff

Reed Way Dasenbrock, dean of arts and sciences at the University of New Mexico and the third provost candidate to visit UH this spring, will discuss his vision for the University during a forum this afternoon.

Dasenbrock has been dean of UNM's College of Arts & Sciences -- the school's largest college -- since 2001, a period in which freshman enrollment increased 28 percent and overall semester credit hours went up 15 percent.

He also worked to stabilize or eliminate debts in the college and its departments and slowed the number of faculty departures to less than 10 a year from more than 30. His policies for faculty retention included a maternity leave policy, spousal hiring, start-up packages for new faculty members and flexible counteroffer practices.

Minority faculty hiring in the college also has increased under Dasenbrock's deanship. Twenty-nine percent of new hires have been minorities, and minorities make up 40 percent of the college's faculty, he reported.

Dasenbrock received his bachelor's degree in English from McGill University in Montreal, an English degree from Oxford University and his master's and doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University.

He became an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in 1981 and taught English there for 20 years. Dasenbrock served as head of the Department of English at NMSU from 1994 to 1997 and as associate dean for research in the College of Arts & Sciences from 1998 to 2001.

Dasenbrock's last year at New Mexico State was the year Jay Gogue, now president of UH, took the presidency of NMSU. Though Dasenbrock said he didn't report to Gogue directly, he said they had a good working relationship.

The hour-long forum for Dasenbrock, which will allow time for him to discuss his career and take questions from the audience, will begin at 3:15 p.m. today in the University Hilton's Waldorf-Astoria Room. Everyone in the campus community is invited.
 

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