Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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judgements that will determine the direction that society will choose for its future. The new University catalog features The Flowering of the Arts in order to improve the academic balance among the three colleges, according to George Beezer, editor of the catalog and director of University publications. A disproporionate number of stu- dents are enrolling in the colleges of business and engineering, said Preston Parr, dean and vice president of student affairs. As of fall, 1980, 30% of all Lehigh undergraduates were enrolled in the arts college. However, Parr added, Of those who do initially enroll in the Col- lege of Arts and Sciences, about 10% mi- grate very soon to business and econo- mics. The arts college is in an unusual situation, according to Beezer, because it has more departments than the other colleges. He explained it is desirable to have a certain number of students majoring in these departments, and apparently they have not had as many as they wanted. Consequently, the focus on the arts. Dean Hunt has focused great adminis- trative attention upon developing ways to release the considerable amount of imagination and leadership present in our faculty. He has also insti- tuted a two-year rotating associate dean system that involves putting a faculty member in the dean ' s office so that the dean and the arts faculty have a channel of communication. Since Hunt has been dean, the speech and theater department had expanded, and the old power house has been renovated to be- come the present Wilbur Drama Workshop. The music department has also expanded, and the Learning Center has opened in Cop- pee Hall. Hunt has been most interested in faculty development. Since 1946, an Andrew W. Mellon grant has been used to increase faculty flexibility, explore relationships be- tween the humanities and the professions, and encourage more effective teaching. 25

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College of Arts and Sciences Dean John W. Hunt sees the primary role of the College of Arts and Sciences as educating students in fundamental skills, knowledge, and habits of mind. Such an education contributes men and women equal to the needs of a changing society, providing them with the critical imagination to make the weighted value 24

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Biology ROW 1: S. Barber, S. Herman, D. Royer, E. Hoagland, H. Pntchard; ROW 2: Hargreaves, R. Malsberger, S. Krawiec, B. Bean, D. Cundall: MISSING: M. Itzkowitz. Chemistry «.- ' 26 ROW 1: D. Zeroka, S. Schaeffer, D. Smyth, R. Svrague, K. Schray, T. Young; ROW 2: . LeMaistere, F. Fowkes, R. Herman, C. Kraihanzel, N. Heindel, ]. ferkel; MISSING: M. Hughes, R. Lovejoy, ]. Manson, J. Sturm, Y. Hazeyama.