Dr. Czerniak asked the department chairs what each of their departments had discussed. Tom Dunn reported that the old foundations department met and quite a few people agreed on having four departments. The few who disagreed seemed to center on where multi-age, voc ed, and TSOC should go. That would give them, he said, the opportunity to have the departments reflect the program in a sense. Everybody who teaches in an undergrad program that program is in their department.
Grad programs are different.
Foundations doesn t have an undergrad program. If they are in a department that doesn t have that program either, that could be confusing. Some of the faculty also felt it was a potential threat that Bowling Green doesn t have a doctoral program in this area and we do. Tom said he views having a single department as coherence and strength. Renee Martin and Dave Bergin said their department discussed the situation a lot but did not come to a consensus.