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Now that we’ve hired a provost and an athletics director, we’ve narrowed the major University leadership openings to five: deans of the Colleges of Business Administration, Nursing, Arts & Sciences, and Communication and vice president of Student Affairs.

Looks like we might be down another dean in the next month. From the Lafayette (Indiana) Journal and Courier:

William A. Henk, a candidate to become Purdue University’s new dean of the College of Education, said under his leadership, the college would focus on a lot of basics while being dynamic at the same time.

“You have to be bold. You have to be imaginative,” Henk told faculty and staff at an open forum Wednesday.

Henk, dean of the School of Education at Marquette University, is the last of the four candidates trying to succeed George Hynd, who left Purdue last year for Arizona State University. Henk said education needs to be the key to a university, even one that puts so much emphasis on engineering and science.

Does anyone think a move from Marquette to Purdue is moving up?

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