Western Front - 2009 April 10

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Western withholds money from tech fee
AS hopesM reclaim $830,000 collected in separate reserve fund
Jeremy Schwartz"
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• For reasons the current administra­tion
is investigating, Western has not di­rectly
contributed any money to the Stu­dent
Technology Fee proposal fund since
the 2004-05 school year.
. Associated Students (AS) President
Erik Lowe delivered an address on April
3 to Western's Board of Trustees about the
AS Board of Directors' concern regard­ing
the university's'failure; to contribute
$150,000 per year to the technology fee
proposal fund, which pays for technology-related.
projects proposed by Western's de­partments..
The Board of Trustees has endorsed
this contribution since the 2005-06 school
year when the contribution was reduced
from $200,000 per year, Lowe said: West­ern's
contribution was supposed to help
fund technology-related projects that di­rectly
benefit students, he said'.
"[The contribution] was mandated by
the Board of Trustees and has been widely
advertised by the university and has re­sulted
in a violation of the trust: between
students arid our school," Lowe said.
Western President Bruce Shepard
said he has ordered an investigation into
why Western's previous administration
established, the reserve' fund. Shepard
said.budget documentation did not clearly
show the money in the reserve fund was
supposed to be set aside for the technol­ogy,
fee proposal fund.
The university reclaimed .approxi­mately
$630,000 at the beginning of 2009
see FUND page 6
Dean hired for College of Fine and Performing Arts
Lisa Carrougher .
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Daniel Guyette, the current dean for
the College of Fine and Performing Arts at
the University of South Dakota, has agreed
to fill the same position as Western's new
dean for the College of Fine and Perform­ing
Arts (CPFA) beginning July 1.:
Guyette received his: bachelor's de­gree
in theater arts from Northwestern
University and received a master's degree
from Pennsylvania State University in
scenic design. He has been at the Uni­versity
of South Dakota since 2004. He
also worked at the University of Northern
Colorado for 11.years. In 1992, he was
•honored as Artist of the Year while at Utah
State University.
Ron Riggins, Western's current dean
of CPFA, said faculty and staff are excited
for what lies ahead in the near future.
. As Riggins prepares to step down
from his two-year position, he said Guy­ette
will bring stability in leadership
and build strong* positive relationships
throughout the.campus.
Guyette's responsibilities as dean will
include overseeing the art, dance, theater
arid music departments as well as manag­ing
the Western Art Gallery and the West­ern
Outdoor Sculpture Collection.
As dean, Guyette will be the adminis­trator
of CPFA. Guyette will work direct­ly
with the faculty and address any issues
and/or concerns, Riggins said.
"His job will'be to facilitate, so goals
can be realized," Riggins said. "I believe
he will be a strong leader who will, dive
into different tasks."
In order to select a new dean for the
college, a Western search committee was
Second provost
search nearing
its conclusion
Coral Garnick
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A search that began in June 2008 may
now finally be coming to an end as Gerard
Voland, the final candidate for Western's
provost/vice president for academic affairs'
visited campus Wednesday and Thursday.
Craig Dunn, chair of the provost
search advisory committee and associate
professor in the marketing department,
said, he will not consider the search to be
successfully complete until five years af­ter
a new provost has been hired.
"It is much like with my students,"
Dunn said. "I'm not looking to measure
my student's achievements at graduation;
I'm looking at how they^are living their
lives five years down the road."
Voland held an open forum Wednes­day
to explain his qualifications and inter­est
in Western and to answer questions
from the campus community.
At the start of the forum, Voland said
one thing that attracted him to Western
is its focus on liberal arts education. He
said too many universities are adapting
a trade-school mentality and forcing stu­dents
strictly down a career-oriented path.
With a liberal education, students learn
how to think, learn, communicate, be cre­ative,
make decisions wisely and use good
•judgment, he said.
"I'm very conscious and apprecia­tive
of the need for liberal education 'as
the foundation of a university," Voland
said. "Of course, I also want a university
to complement liberal arts with the pro­fessional
skills, and that balance is here at
western!"
Voland has a doctorate in engineering
design from Tufts University in Medford,
Mass., a master's degree in physics
see PROVOST page 5
see DEAN page 5
photo courtesy of University Communications
Daniel Guyette takes place as the dean of
the College of Fine and Performing Arts.