Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Bellarmine College of Liberal ArtsFall Welcome
September 15, 2009
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Traditions, Transitions, and the Education that
Transforms
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Ph.D. Dean
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2009-10 New Tenure-Line Faculty
Dexter Blackman (HIST)
Angela James (AFAM)
Alexandra Neel (HUMN)
Chan Lu (MDLL)
Rachel Washburn (SOCL)
Cassandra Veney (POLS)
Sun-Hee Yoon (HIST)
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New Presidential Professors
Steven Mailloux (ENGL)
Paul T. Zeleza (HIST/AFAM)
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2009-10 New Visiting Faculty
Lynell George (ENGL)
Joshua Hayes (PHIL)
Nicholas Brown (THST)
Lisa Hernandez (CHST)
Jon Mochizuki (HIST)
Michon Mattiesen (THST)
William Shaules (THST)
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New American Cultures Fellow
Jane Yamashiro
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Center for Race and Ethnicity
Edward Park, Director Faculty Research Fellows
for 2009-10 Connie Chen Project In Search of
Nirvana the Re-Orientation of Buddhism in
Nineteenth-Century United States. Juan Mah y
Busch Project Ariels Caliban The Chicana/o
Aesthetic of Survival and Life An Ethical
Theory.
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Fundraising

• BCLA Campaign Goal  24,000,000
• Campaign raised to date (cash and pledges) 
  17,500,000
• Though not a comprehensive list, here are some of
  our more significant gifts and pledges in the
  past year
• Artifacts (Archaeology) 333,000
• Planned Gift Expectancy, Modern Languages and
  Literatures, 142,375
• Craves Endowment in Bioethics, 100,000
• Endowed Chair in Judaism, 100,000
• Navin and Pratima Doshi Endowed Professor of
  Indic
• and Comparative Theology 62,500
• Institute for Leadership Studies, 50,000
• Jewish Studies Program, 30,000
• Team Teaching Grant (History) 12,420
• Carol A. Sullivan Annual Scholarship, 11,000

BCLA Campaign Goal24,000,000Campaign
Raised to Date(cash pledges)17,500,000
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Traditions, Transitions, and the Education that
Transforms
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Ph.D. Dean
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Strategic Plan Goals
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interdisciplinary
crossdisciplinary
pluridisciplinary

multidisciplinary
postdisciplinary
transdisciplinary
superdisciplines
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commodification

internationalization
massification
globalization
exchanges
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Priorities

• Strengthen the Curriculum
• Advance Faculty Scholarship
• Smart Fundraising

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St. Robert Bellarmine