Looking toward the coming academic year

In the coming academic year, I expect a number of changes at PSU that will affect our department. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (of which we are a part) will have a new dean in January, 2012. A dean can have a profound affect on the way departments function, so it should be interesting to experience the changes. We will also have a new budgetary system that will likely calibrate department revenue with student credit hours (SCH) generated. We are proposing an undergraduate major and minor, so additional SCH should follow, expanding our ability to pay for more graduate assistants, scholarships, and faculty members. We shall see...