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Notes from the Chair Notes from the Chair This report is being written as we enter into our last preparations before the College Art Association Annual Meeting, held on February 20-23. In keeping with our ambition to open the Department to new kinds of courses, beyond those regularly given by the faculty, we have hired a number of visitors to spice up life in the old halls. In the Fall term 2001, professor and architect Mark Hewitt taught his specialty, Arts and Crafts in the U.S. with emphasis on Gustave Stickley, to a SEMINAR IN ART HISTORY. In the Spring term 2002, Meredith Bzdak is teaching a SEMINAR IN ART HISTORY on the subject of "New York-Los Angeles: Urbanism and Architecture in the Twentieth Century." Also in the Spring term 2002, Michael Bzdak is giving a course called "Art and Commerce: Corporate Support of the Arts in America 1900-2000." Sound like the Department in your time here? Try this one, given by Alison Poe this Spring 2002:"The Roman Art of Death," a study of ancient Roman tombs, death masks, funerary altars, sarcophagi, death and the afterlife, hey, Alison, lighten up!
Last Spring we were anticipating the hire of two new faculty in
American and 18th-19th century European art, but over the summer the
Acting Dean cut the number of hires to one. With the arrival of Dean
Holly Smith, now our on-going Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, the second line was re-authorized. As this report goes to
press, however, the State of New Jersey is in the midst of financial
strains from Trenton that call for 5% cuts in costs and a total hiring
freeze. Despite the dim forecast that we have received for the coming
months, however, we remain confident that we will be able to swim
upstream, against the current of financial realities and hire at least
one new faculty this Spring. It may be some time before we have
replenished our faculty resources and replaced all five lines lost in
recent years to promotion decisions, retirements, and a resignation; but
we are confident that our reputation will remain high. The fact that
several of the faculty have received (and continue to receive!) feelers
and offers from outside institutions but have decided to remain at
Rutgers is the best indication of the high level of the program we run
and the quality of the students who are active in it. In the last thirty
years, we have made a distinctive mark in Art History, a mark that is
the result of the fine achievements of its graduates, as well as its
faculty. For this we are extremely grateful and remain very proud.
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