{"id":37324,"date":"2018-12-13T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=37324"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:36:55","slug":"welshon-named-interim-dean-of-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=37324","title":{"rendered":"Welshon named interim dean of College of Letters, Arts and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37330\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"Robert &quot;Rex&quot; Welshon\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert \u201cRex\u201d Welshon, professor, Philosophy Department, will serve as interim dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences effective Jan. 1, 2019. Provost Tom Christensen made the announcement to the campus Dec. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRex brings a wealth of experience to the role as we begin the search for the permanent dean of the college,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cHis work in the college\u2019s leadership for 14 years with three deans will provide the historical background to what\u2019s been done and provide the needed insight for the college\u2019s future during this transition period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welshon previously served as associate dean and senior associate dean from 2001 to 2016. He was chair of the Philosophy Department in 2016-17. He joined the UCCS faculty as assistant professor in 1993 and was promoted to associate professor in 2000 and professor in 2010. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 2009-10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored and humbled to have been chosen for this position,&#8221; Welshon said. &#8220;I\u2019ll do everything I can to help our faculty, staff, and students flourish and to ensure that the next Dean inherits a thriving College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welshon earned his bachelor\u2019s and master&#8217;s degrees from Colorado State University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University. His areas of specialization are philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Peter Braza will return to the faculty at the end of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Robert \u201cRex\u201d Welshon, professor, Philosophy Department, will serve as interim dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences effective Jan. 1, 2019. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=37324\" title=\"Welshon named interim dean of College of Letters, Arts and Sciences\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[53,86,123],"class_list":["post-37324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-academic-affairs","tag-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","tag-department-of-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/welshon.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-9I0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37369,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37324\/revisions\/37369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}