The next dean of the College of Communication, Information and Media has an enormous potential to help the university gain national distinction, the second candidate for the position said Wednesday afternoon at Bracken Library.
"I'll establish that as my goal as dean of this college," said Roy Moore, currently the associate dean for graduate studies in the College of Communications and Information Studies at the University of Kentucky.
During a public forum, Moore said he is very interested in the position of CCIM dean and likes the faculty's commitment and cooperation.
It's a very collegial faculty, Moore said.
"I'm not interested in going to a college where there's little collegiality, and that's not what I see here," he said.
Before assuming his current dean position at the University of Kentucky in 1995, Moore held several other academic positions including associate professor of communication at both Georgia State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Moore said one of his primary responsibilities as the college's future dean would be to continue its excellent undergraduate and graduate programs and to continue striving for national recognition.
"One way to do this is to keep enrollment where we always have cream-of-the-crop students, and to have good internal and external resources," Moore said.
A doctoral program in the College of Communication, Information and Media should also be given serious consideration, he said. Moore said he would also like to make stronger links among the college's various master's programs.
"This will (provide for) different economies of scale and enable the college to pull graduate faculty from various units instead of having one department be responsible for the entire graduate program," Moore said.
During his two-day visit at Ball State, the candidate said many undergraduate and graduate students told him they were satisfied with the college's quality of teaching and technology.
Moore said he looks forward to when the college will have its new facility but was very impressed with the amount of cutting-edge technology already available in both the journalism and telecommunications departments.
"There are very few colleges around the country that are getting new buildings," Moore said. "To get a whole new building of your own is a really remarkable achievement."
Beth Messner, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, said she liked how Moore was familiar with strategic planning, resource management and assessment. He provided direct answers to all of our questions, she said.
"It's clear that Dr. Moore understands the nuances of the university structure," Messner said. "That is one of his strengths as a candidate."
The Dean Search Committee will meet on Friday to discuss what they learned about both Moore and Jon Petrovich, the first candidate. The committee will then make a recommendation to the provost, said Jean Amman, presidential representative of the committee.
Amman said the committee could recommend one, both or neither of the candidates based on the review. "The committee will recommend the candidate they have found to be both qualified and acceptable," she said.
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