Since then, she has become a member of the UCSD' s biology department, serving as vice chair for education in biology. She heads UCSD' s Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program , which provides money to strengthen biological science programs at 56 colleges and universities in 22 states and Puerto Rico. And she is the chair of the Academic Senate Committee on Educational Policy and a member of the Thurgood Marshall College curriculum committee and faculty advisory board. Even when Sixth College opens, she wants to continue teaching, which gives her access to students. You cannot create something for somebody you don' t know.
Students have a hard time relating to somebody sitting at a desk.
Several professors, in a signed letter, have questioned the proposed themes for Sixth College, wondering if the university was being developed in response to Silicon Valley or Hollywood. That' s just going to be the educational platform for them to learn how to think and create during their freshman and sophomore years. One of the hardest tasks that Wienhausen' s committee faces is selecting a name. The college names must embody the spirit of its theme or curriculum. For instance, it took 23 year before Marshall College, named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, got its name.