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Re: renaming a department

Rice has a department of Spanish, Classics and Portoguese. However, my
impression is that triply named departments have a very short half-life.


Even doubly named departments, Philosophy & Religion, German and Slavic
Languages, etc. have not endured very long, though their fission products
have.

Richard Grandy


At 6:38 PM -0500 3/25/98, Paul Ukleja wrote:
We were considering a renaming ourselves (to reflect the presence of
Physical Oceanographers, for instance) and I looked in the book of grad
programs and found one with the title: Physics, Astronomy, and Physical
Oceanography.



Can you provide examples of names with tripple identity? It may be
useful to us if the last option (see below) prevails.

Ludwik Kowalski ! I hope this will be the
Department of Mathematics and Physics ! name of my department
Montclair State University, N.J. ! when the Computer Science
! Deptartment is formed.
! We used to be the Dep. of Physics-Geoscience (and we liked it this
! way) but the administration decided to merge the geoscience with
! the environment and we became part of the "Mathematics and Computer
! Science". The computer science people were fighting for independence
! and they were able to prevail. The vote for the new name took place
! yesterday but I do not know what the outcome was. Two other options
! were "mathematics" or "mathematics and statiscics". Tripple identity
! was acceptable to administration.


Paul Ukleja
Chair, Physics Department
UMass Dartmouth -- http://www.umassd.edu/
FAX -- 508-999-9115 -- Phone 508-999-8353