2008 Woodie Awards
After 11 years as the academic vice president and dean of faculty at Marist, Artin Arslanian will be stepping down to make room for "new blood." The decision was prompted, he said, by "a lot of things. Eleven years is an unusually long time for an administrator [to serve].
Dr. John T. Ritschdorff was appointed as the Interim Dean of the School of Communication and the Arts in 2005, a supposedly temporary situation. Since his appointment, it has been a year and a half, and a full-time replacement has not yet been hired. The Dean of Faculty and Academic Vice President, Dr.