Dr. Bartelt got her first taste of college administration in the 1970s as coordinator of women's studies at Glassboro State College, which became Rowan University, in New Jersey. In the 1980s she was special assistant to the president and served on the Faculty Senate at the college. Since her arrival on campus, Dr. Bartelt has spent a great deal of time getting to know faculty and administrators. Through a series of meetings, she carefully is identifying the priorities of each school within the university. And though she is sensitive to the needs of all of the schools, her experience in the liberal arts has given her a distinct awareness of the important role of the Arts and Sciences in higher education.
Students have to know how to write, how to complete mathematical functions, how to think critically.
Other skills build upon these basics. Central's grounding in the liberal arts clearly played a part in Dr. Bartelt's decision to come here. Caring on the part of the faculty was equally important to her. Expounding on excellence in the classroom, Dr. Bartelt says she is convinced that good teaching is inexorably tied to active involvement in scholarship. I believe there is a strong interaction between scholarship and teaching.