In the College of Agriculture, Communities and the Environment, the current Chairs were satisfied with the creation of another chair; this college has three schools now. They were also happy about the reinstatement of the Dean. Their only issue was the elimination of the Graduate Studies Director position.

In the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences, the Dean was satisfied with the new integration in the program.

In the School of Government, Policy and Justice Studies, the Chair is satisfied and thinks that this school will fit within the mission.

In the College of Business and Computer Science, the Dean talked about the fact that the college has to go through two accreditations, which is onerous, but provides a good synergy for faculty to accomplish goals.

The Chair of Math and Computer Science thinks that an Associate Chair is needed. The committee addresses this concern in their recommendations.

Faculty and administrators in the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences have several plans for new programs and certificates.

The School of Humanities and Performing Arts was a big area to be addressed. Basically, the school contains two schools: Performing Arts and Humanities. Currently, this huge School has one Chair and one Associate Chair, which creates a challenge for Humanities. Humanities encompasses the two largest programs on campus: the English Program and the Integrative Studies Program. These programs offer eight General Education courses: ENG, IGS, SPE and Foreign Languages. The Humanities division includes thirteen faculty plus the Associate Chair and a large number of adjuncts. Just in Fall of 2018, this division served about 1000 students. The faculty believe that their size and the number of students served justifies an independent school with a full chair position.

The other main concern that came up during consultations with faculty and administrators was a lack of a graduate center. The report contains a list of the problems caused by the elimination of the Graduate Center. Vice Provost Schneller has taken over the task of graduate admissions to help address the problems.

In general, the reorganization is satisfactory. The committee made four recommendations:

Reinstate all the Coordinator positions that were eliminated. Pages 2-5 of the report provide a statement of need for this reinstatement, a long list of responsibilities for the Coordinators and a strong justification for the reinstatement.

Separate Humanities and Performing Arts into two distinct Schools and appoint a Chair for each School. There is a detailed rationale for this recommendation on pages 7-8 of the report.

Move History into the School of Humanities. History is an organic fit with Humanities, and History and Africana Studies will enhance that area. Bigdeli added that we need more faculty in History; the Green Ribbon Committee is recommending a new program called "History and Museum Studies." Moving History to Humanities will provide support for this new program, also.

Rename the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) to Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS). All the courses in this School already have the prefix of BSS. Obviously, this is a minor recommendation.

Moffett explained that as new Senate President last fall, he had difficulty figuring out Faculty representation on Senate due to the reorganization. In particular, the Schools of Public Administration, Social Work and Justice Studies don’t have Senate representation; this is an internal issue for those schools to deal with.