In an email from President James Muyskens to the Queens College community:
qcmailer/COMM/Staff/Queens College wrote on 07/02/2009 03:55:59 PM:
> I am pleased to announce that Judith Summerfield, whom many of you
> know from her previous years at this college, will be returning to
> campus to become the Acting Dean for General Education. This is
> especially fortuitous for us as, besides being a prolific scholar
> and award-winning educator, Judith was the City University’s Dean
> for Undergraduate Education for the last six years. This fall,
> thanks to the extraordinary work of our Academic Senate, we will
> begin our Year of General Education in which we will introduce our
> new curriculum, Perspectives on the Liberal Arts and Sciences
> (Perspectives), to the class of 2013. Judith—who at various times at
> the college was Co-director of FYI, Acting Dean of the Arts and
> Humanities, and Dean for Undergraduate Education—is the right person
> at the right time to ensure that the first year of our new
> curriculum is a success.
>
> “It’s great to be coming back to Queens,” says Judith. “My six years
> at 80th St. as University Dean for Undergraduate Education have
> given me new insights into ways to build successful programs and
> into the importance of making general education a cornerstone of our
> students’ college experience. Given the recent strides Queens has
> made in transforming the curriculum, we have every chance of being
> one of the great colleges of the 21st century.”
>
> “Judith brings back to Queens College her commitment to excellence
> in undergraduate education, more than 20 years of creating and
> directing innovative programs, and her vision of an even stronger
> general education curriculum,” notes Assistant Provost June Bobb.
>
> “I very much look forward to collaborating with Judith to create the
> new Office of General Education and launch the first year of our new
> curriculum,” says Eva Fernández, the Director of the Center for
> Teaching and Learning. “Our faculty has worked extraordinarily hard,
> first envisioning an innovative curriculum, and more recently
> designing courses that will fulfill the Perspectives requirements.
> We have a ways to go to meet the challenge of implementing a
> nationally recognized general education curriculum, and Judith’s
> appointment is an excellent step toward achieving that ambitious objective.”
>
> Please join me in welcoming Judith Summerfield back to Queens College.
