{"id":4533,"date":"2020-01-15T17:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2023-05-24T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:38:07","slug":"susan-jackson-rodgers-appointed-honors-college-interim-associate-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/2020\/01\/15\/susan-jackson-rodgers-appointed-honors-college-interim-associate-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Jackson Rodgers Appointed Honors College Interim Associate Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Susan Jackson Rodgers
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Susan Jackson Rodgers<\/a>, a professor in the School of Writing, Literature and Film, has been named interim associate dean of the Oregon State University Honors College. She will replace Dr. Tara Williams, who has taken a position as dean of the University of Alabama Honors College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Williams has been the associate dean of the Honors College at Oregon State since 2013. During her tenure, she led in increasing the number and variety of honors course sections, opening an Honors College option at OSU-Cascades, expanding faculty engagement and development opportunities and coordinating the preparations and follow-up for an external review of the college, among many other accomplishments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cProfessor Rodgers is the ideal person to maintain and build on Dr. Williams\u2019 achievements during this transitional period,\u201d says Toni Doolen, dean of the Oregon State Honors College. \u201cShe brings outstanding experience and the diverse skill set required by this critical role in the college. I am very excited for her to join our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Honors\nCollege<\/a> at Oregon State offers outstanding and engaged undergraduates from\nacross the university unique curricular, research and co-curricular\nopportunities designed to develop enhanced disciplinary and cross-disciplinary\ncapabilities. Admission to the Honors College is competitive, and graduates\nearn an honors baccalaureate degree in their major field(s). Currently, the\ncollege enrolls about 1,500 undergraduates, with a goal of increasing total\nenrollment to 1,800 by fall, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The associate dean of the Honors College has a broad portfolio of responsibilities, including curricular development, assessment and operational oversight. The position has taken on a greater role in managing day-to-day program administration since Dean Doolen\u2019s appointment as dean of the OSU College of Education in 2017, a position she will remain in through the 2019-2020 academic year. The college expects to launch a search for a permanent associate dean in fall, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Rodgers has been a faculty member at Oregon\nState since 2008 and was director of the School of Writing, Literature and\nFilm\u2019s master of fine arts in creative writing program from 2015 to 2019. She\nis a nationally-recognized fiction writer and creative writing teacher and has\nwritten two collections of stories, a novel and award-winning pieces for\nnumerous literary journals and magazines. Before coming to Oregon State, she\ntaught at Kansas State University from 1992-2008, and during her time there,\nshe was recognized with Kansas State\u2019s most prestigious teaching commendation,\nthe Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She serves on\nthe Board of Directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to build on the extraordinary success of the\nHonors College,\u201d says Professor Rodgers. \u201cThe college models innovative student\nlearning and engagement for the entire Oregon State community, and it is a\nprivilege to join such a vibrant and successful part of the university. I can\u2019t\nwait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Rodgers will officially begin as interim associate dean on February 1, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Kevin Stoller: Director of External Relations and Operations, Honors College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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