黑料正能量鈥檚 search for a new provost is scheduled for Fall 2017.聽In the interim, we are very fortunate to welcome Dr. Henry (Hank) Kreuzman to 黑料正能量 to serve in an interim provost role beginning in August 2017.聽Hank has served the College of Wooster for the past eight years as Dean for Curriculum and Academic Engagement and comes highly recommended by the two presidents to whom he reported. He is well known to those of us at 黑料正能量 who have participated in the Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLAA) events.聽Prior to serving as Dean, during which he led all curricular renewal at Wooster, he served 10 years as the Chair of the Philosophy Department.聽During his tenure as Dean, Hank restructured the advising process for new students and created a comprehensive advising program--ARCH聽(Academic Registration and Creative Horizons)--the purpose of which is to guide students to develop intentional long-term educational plans starting in their first semester.聽This advising program was developed in conjunction with the launching of Wooster鈥檚 learning commons -聽APEX聽(Advising Planning and Experiential Learning). The core idea of聽APEX聽is to provide better support to students through the co-location and cooperation of seven offices (i.e., Advising Center, Learning Center, Registrar, Experiential Learning, Off-Campus Study, Entrepreneurship, and Career Planning). In addition, the Writing Center was restructured so that its focus was more closely aligned with the College鈥檚 mission.聽 All these changes resulted in a doubling of students using the services and, more important, a closer collaboration between staff and faculty around student learning.聽
To strengthen Wooster鈥檚 liberal arts core, Hank worked with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to develop the College鈥檚聽Graduate Qualities聽index which defines the personal and intellectual capacities that the College aims to cultivate in each student.聽This work has been closely aligned with and is guiding the ongoing process of reshaping the College鈥檚 core requirements (general education). In addition, he has helped to reshape Wooster鈥檚 departmental curricula.聽 Working with faculty from the foreign language, history, and literature departments, he guided the College to the development of new programs that focus upon global regions in the world, such as, Latin American Studies, East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Middle Eastern and North African Studies.聽To further the College鈥檚 goal of enhancing students鈥� global engagement, he worked to improve semester long off-campus study opportunities and the development of short-term faculty-led study trips.聽 He also worked with the Noble Foundation to support a collaboration between Wooster and Ashesi University College in Ghana.聽This partnership facilitates global learning through student, staff, and faculty exchanges that take place during the regular academic year and summer.聽He has collaborated with colleagues at Oberlin, Denison, Kenyon, Ohio Wesleyan, and Allegheny on a 鈥淔aculty Planning & Curricular Coherence Grant鈥� from the Teagle Foundation to deepen students鈥� understanding of expected learning outcomes.聽He was also the campus leader on a collaborative assessment grant funded by the AAC&U and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to develop rubrics for course-embedded assessment and evaluate their impact.
Hank Kreuzman is a philosopher holding a doctorate from Notre Dame, who works in the fields of epistemology and philosophy of science. At Wooster, he taught courses on "Jurisprudence, Law and Society," "Environmental Ethics," "Ethics, Justice and Society,鈥� 鈥淪cientific Revolutions and Methodology,鈥� and a range of philosophy courses. He is described by both of his presidents as an invaluable member of their leadership teams, someone who held the trust of his faculty through periods of profound curricular change.