Text of October 17, 2011 Email
from Richard Edwards, Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Regarding Postponement of Decanal Review of Dean Christopher Malloy

Dear University Senate Executive Committee Members,
 
Given Dean Chris Molloy's recent appointment as Interim Provost for Biomedical and Health Sciences and Special Assistant to the President for Biomedical and Health Sciences, I am writing to inform you that we are postposing indefinitely our planned decanal review of Dean Molloy during this academic year. I thank you for responding to my request for nominees to serve on the review committee in such a timely manner, and especially want to thank those faculty volunteering to serve on the decanal review committee. Incorporating the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and the School of Public Health into Rutgers provides us with tremendous opportunities but will require extensive organizational and academic planning if we are to achieve a successful merger. I appreciate your understanding of our need to adjust university priorities in order to accommodate coordination of this important and challenging task.
 
We are considering initiating additional decanal reviews later this academic year, and should we decide to move in that direction, I will be back to you in the spring semester with details of our plans.

Sincerely,

Richard L. Edwards
Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs