At its Dec. 15 meeting USC’s Board of Trustees approved the creation of a College of Arts and Sciences and the establishment of a seven-member Research Campus Foundation board for oversight of USC’s fledgling research campus.
The board also authorized President Sorensen to work with Ray Greenberg, president of the Medical University of South Carolina, to begin a dean’s search for the pharmacy colleges at USC and the MUSC. The dean’s search is considered a first step toward an eventual merger of the two pharmacy programs. The boards of both universities met jointly last month but did not formally approve the merger.
Creation of the new arts and sciences college follows months of committee work and discussion forums that culminated in the committee’s recommendation for merging the colleges of science and mathematics and liberal arts. A dean’s search for the new college is expected to begin early in 2004.
Larry Faulkner, dean of the School of Medicine, will chair a dean’s search committee for the Arnold School of Public Health. Former dean Harris Pastides recently was named USC’s vice president for research and health sciences. History professor Dan Carter is chairing the search for a University provost to replace Jerry Odom, who will return to teaching in August.
In other business, Gov. Mark Sanford briefly addressed the board to present the Order of the Palmetto to Tommy Stepp, secretary to the board and University secretary and treasurer. Stepp joined USC in 1985 after a long executive career at S.C. ETV that began in 1958.
“One of the key things that characterizes recipients of the Order of the Palmetto is that they have moved beyond mere success to significance,” Sanford said. “Your life work has reflected that, Tommy.”
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