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	<title>The Quad &#187; 2011 &#187; July</title>
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		<title>Interim Dean Vaught</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since arriving at UMKC as a faculty member in 1998, I have been impressed by the quality of the student body and the dedication and expertise of the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. During this time I have had the privilege of working with some truly exceptional people and am honored to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Dean Vorst Reflects on the Past Five Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years sometimes sounds like a long time. Yet, I cannot believe that five years have gone by since I was honored by being named the Dean of the UMKC College of Arts and Sciences. It has been an interesting, exciting and, at times, exhausting job&#8211;but it also has been quite rewarding. I have met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Fact</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Fall Semester 2011, the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty in A&#38;S will be 178. That is an average of 9.89 per department. They will be joined by 15 non-tenure track faculty and 20 full-time lecturers making the total 213.]]></description>
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		<title>Dean&#8217;s Office Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Hankins has joined the A&#38;S Dean’s Office as Executive Assistant to the Dean. She replaces Cyndi Mahoney who returned to a staff position in the English Department. Susan started working at UMKC in May, 2008 as an Administrative Assistant in Sociology. She says she has enjoyed every day of her work at UMKC with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sociology News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Breytspraak (Chair, Sociology) reports that the Department presented its annual faculty and student awards at its graduation reception held May 5th at the Chancellor’s Residence. The event was well attended by students and their families, community leaders and faculty. Jennifer Huberman (left) was the recipient of the department’s 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff Corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years of Service Awards Karon Hink Senior Secretary, Physics 15 years]]></description>
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		<title>Recognitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caitlin Horsmon, (Communication Studies) received a Rocket Grant, in partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation, Spencer Museum and the Andy Warhol Foundation. She is one of ten recipients to receive $4000 for the Visual Arts. Her project, titled “Resistant History,” will reframe political reform as a local activity through collecting stories of progressive change in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Fact</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eighteen A&#38;S Academic Departments averaged 634 SCH in Summer 2011 enrollments. Four had more than 1,000. These were: Chemistry, Communication Studies, English, and Mathematics &#38; Statistics.]]></description>
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		<title>Activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luis Belaustegui is UMKC’s Language Resource Center Director and first and second Year Spanish Coordinator in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. During the first two weeks of 2011, Belaustegui raced his motorcycle in The Dakar, an international, off-road endurance race. Originally called the Paris-to-Dakar rally, the event has been staged in various locations around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transitions in Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of A&#38;S faculty have chosen to retire this year. In this issue of the E-Zine, we report what they or their departments have sent us to reflect on how we are to remember their UMKC careers and plans for retirement.  Since some were not available to respond in time for this issue, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Fact</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2011/07/29/fast-fact-25/</link>
		<comments>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2011/07/29/fast-fact-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the UMKC Office of Research Services, in FY 2010-2011, A&#38;S faculty obtained $6,572,036 in external grants and contracts. The average award size was $142,870.]]></description>
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		<title>Retired &amp; Retiring Faculty as of September 1, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tenured Faculty Years at UMKC  Harris Mirkin – Political Science 45  David Atkinson – Political Science 44  Geraldine Fowle – Art History 44  Philip Olson – Sociology 42  George Gale – Philosophy 40  Louis Potts – History 40  Richard Murphy – Physics 37  Charles Wurrey –Chemistry 37  Craig Subler – Art History 31  Michael Neer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Recognitions</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2011/07/29/student-recognitions/</link>
		<comments>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2011/07/29/student-recognitions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just learned that two A&#38;S students have been Gilman Study Abroad award recipients in recent months: Michael Stobaugh, a senior German major, went to Bonn for the summer. Matthew Parish, a junior Computer Science major and Spanish minor, will spend the Fall 2011 semester studying in Granada, Spain. Matthew also received a Hy [...]]]></description>
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