{"61184":{"#nid":"61184","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Message from Dean Jacqueline Jones Royster","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMy thanks go to all for your warm and gracious welcoming of me to\nGeorgia Tech and to the Ivan Allen College. I have been able to spend\nquite a bit of time on campus during the past six months getting to\nknow the extraordinary faculty, staff, and students of this remarkable\ninstitution and the ever-expanding body of work unfolding within Ivan\nAllen College of Liberal Arts. It is with great optimism and enthusiasm\nthat I join you in this work as dean and colleague.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe liberal arts have been part of Georgia Tech since it opened its\ndoors in 1888 with English as one of the original six subjects taught.\nThough there have been many iterations for our disciplines and\ninter-disciplines since then, we have remained constant in playing\ncritical roles across the decades in shaping and influencing the\nmultiple ways in which science, technology, and the liberal arts\nconverge to deliver the highest quality of research and teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the tenure of my predecessor, Dean Sue Rosser, the Ivan Allen\nCollege in its current form gained solid footing and reached new\nheights in academic accomplishments. Distinctive among these\naccomplishments, we developed a research profile commensurate with a\nworld-class research university and built collaborative programs at the\nintersections of technology and the liberal arts that, today, define\nthe college as a leader in interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and\nteaching. Because of these accomplishments, I believe that the Ivan\nAllen College stands in the vanguard for the future. We are poised to\nproclaim Georgia Tech as a locus for 21st century liberal arts\nresearch, teaching, and learning, and we stand ready, willing, and able\nto accentuate to remarkable effect the capacity of Georgia Tech to\nfulfill its innovative, interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial mission as a\ntop tier research university, dedicated to using its knowledge creation\nin service of public interests locally and globally.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EToward these ambitious ends, I have drafted two working documents\nfor the IAC. One articulates a vision, mission, and strategic\npriorities for 2010-2011. The second lays out a basic framework for\naligning the IAC with the new and exciting strategic plan for the\nInstitute presented to the campus by President Peterson in his opening\naddress to the campus. Together, they form a basic springboard from\nwhich the IAC will conduct its own strategic assessment and establish\nan agenda going forward that complements the Georgia Tech plan in a\nrobust way.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMost certainly, an IAC strategic planning process will draw\nattention: to our collective strength as a driver for\ninterdisciplinarity in research, teaching, and learning; to an\never-growing internal and external awareness of our excellence in\nresearch and scholarship; and to the depth of our commitment to\nproviding our students\u2014whether undergraduate or graduate\u2014with top tier\nclassroom and extra-classroom experiences. At the same time, the\nprocess will be directed also toward strengthening our fiscal capacity\nand enhancing operational efficiency and effectiveness in support of\nthe broad and dynamic array of our enterprises.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEngaging in this type of process affirms that we remain on a path\nthat continues to embrace and grow the Allen legacy. Ivan Allen, Jr.\nwas a leader of great vision for his city and country who demonstrated\nremarkable courage in the face of crisis. Our mission as the Ivan Allen\nCollege is similarly cast: to lead with a clear sense of our\ndistinctive history at Georgia Tech and with a robust vision of the\nvalues added to the world by the liberal arts; to advance the\nextraordinarily innovative interdisciplinary and collaborative research\nand teaching that we do; and to bring our strengths in the liberal arts\nboldly into the present and the future as we collaborate with others to\ncreate knowledge and to prepare new generations of students.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt this point in time, we face a new horizon filled with both\nchallenges and opportunities, and I look forward to our working\ntogether to bring honor to this great institution and to do all that we\ncan to make the world a better place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003EDean Royster is a professor of English with interests related to\nrhetorical studies, women\u2019s studies, and literacy. She holds the Ivan\nAllen Jr. Dean\u0027s Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology and is professor\nin the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My thanks go to all for your warm and gracious welcoming of me to\nGeorgia Tech and to the Ivan Allen College.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2010-09-23 16:05:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:27","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"61183":{"id":"61183","type":"image","title":"Dean Jacqueline Jones Royster","body":null,"created":"1449176308","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:28","changed":"1475894533","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:13","alt":"Dean Jacqueline Jones Royster","file":{"fid":"191288","name":"Jackie_arms_crossed_hall_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jackie_arms_crossed_hall_200x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jackie_arms_crossed_hall_200x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":41739,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jackie_arms_crossed_hall_200x300_0.jpg?itok=hvo813Eg"}}},"media_ids":["61183"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/staff\/royster","title":"Biography of Jacqueline Jones Royster"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10731","name":"Dean Jacqueline Jones Royster"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}