Janice Schach, the first of three finalists selected by a search committee for the dean of the Texas A&M College of Architecture, is visiting campus today and Friday (Feb. 14-15). On Thursday she presented a lecture titled “Vision and Strategy for the Governance of the College of Architecture” at the Preston Geren Auditorium. Her presentation was attended by college faculty, staff and students.
She identified four drivers of change in the world the college will be continually responding to: sustainability, health care, globalization, and the creative culture, in which she sees architects working with, for example, designers in areas such as the aircraft and the auto industries, incorporating technology in those fields in their designs.
Schach talked about how our current society is moving beyond the information age to a conceptual age, and that a central question of this age will be “Who has the best and most innovative ideas, and how do those ideas get to the market?”
Faculty, staff and students of the college can view the candidates’ application packages and examples of their creative and research work at http://geosciences.tamu.edu/arch_vote/index.html. To access the site, use “architecture” as a login name and “vote2008” as a password.
Visits will continue Feb. 19-20 (Wayne Drummond), and Feb. 21-22 (Andrew Vernooy).
Within three days of each candidate’s visit, college faculty, staff and students can anonymously evaluate the candidates online at the same Web address. Final evaluations close Feb. 26.
Janice Schach has been dean of the Clemson College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities since 2000. She received a Master in Landscape Architecture degree at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontaio, Canada, in 1981. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., in 1979.
Since 2007, Schach has been the chief academic and financial officer of a college with 10 academic departments, nine academic centers and several on and off-campus study programs.
Wayne Drummond, who will interview Feb. 19-20, has been the dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 2000. Before that, he was dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Florida from 1990-99; he also served as dean at Texas Tech University’s College of Architecture from 1987-90.
He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1968 from Louisiana State University and a Master of Architecture degree from Rice University in 1969. His presentation time at Preston Geren auditorium as part of his visit has not yet been scheduled.
Andrew Vernooy, who will interview Feb. 21-22, has been the dean at Texas Tech University’s College of Architecture since 2002.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Princeton University in 1970. He received the first of his three master’s degrees from the University of Texas in 1978 in architecture. In 1990, he received a Master of Science in Engineering degree from UT, and then received a Master of Design Studies degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1991. His presentation time at Preston Geren auditorium has yet to be scheduled.
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