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Volume 70, Issue 94,
Thursday, February 17, 2005
News Provost candidate to speak at forum Cougar News Staff Kathryn Seidel, dean of arts and sciences at the University of Central Florida, will discuss her qualifications for UH provost during an open forum this afternoon. The hour-long forum for Seidel will include time for her to talk about her career and take questions from the audience. It will begin at 3:15 p.m. in the Hilton Ballroom. Seidel is the fourth of five provost candidates to visit the University this spring. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., and a master's and doctorate in English from the University of Maryland. She worked at several schools teaching English and writing before becoming an English professor at UCF in 1986. Seidel was assistant dean of the college of arts and sciences from 1986 to 1990, associate dean from 1990 to 1994, She became interim dean in 1995 and has been dean since. Seidel's college is the largest at UCF, with 590 full-time faculty members, 125 staff members and more than 400 adjuncts and teaching assistants. As dean, Seidel has fostered diversity, increased external funding by $5 million and has served on local and state education and arts boards. She has also encouraged research in her college by establishing research centers for forensic science, digital media and black film studies. Seidel said she has also encouraged the development
of interdisciplinary degrees and is at work on a $10 million request for
digital media with UCF's engineering college.
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