ORGANIZING THE FACULTY WITHIN A COLLEGE 81 Communications faculty had doctorates, while most Performing and Creative Arts faculty had M.F.A. degrees. Their sensibilities were thus different. In the end, both groups celebrated the separation. b) A program in Theoretical Linguistics was housed within English. Over a period of years, the Linguistics faculty had decided they wanted to add a TESOL program. When the TESOL program was approved, it grew by leaps and bounds. Those teaching in the Linguistics programs—who were all English faculty—decided they could be more effective if they could have their own department. They came to the dean and convinced her to agree. The dean required that some of them would have to move their lines from English to Linguistics, which would mean leaving a well-established large department (English) to move to a small new department. Two decided to take joint appoint- ments, and the two most senior moved their lines fully. Since then, two new lines have been added. This restructuring occurred at a large comprehensive unionized institution, and according to the contract, faculty members can move their lines if the receiving department is willing to welcome them. The department losing the faculty member has no say. c) When a new dean of A&S came on board, the head for the Department of Math- ematical Sciences was stepping down and informed him the Computer Science faculty (included as a division within the department) had been feeling margin- alized and isolated since they were in a minority and the kind of work they did was not understood by the mathematicians. They were chafing and wanted their own department. The investment in the new CS department seemed reasonable because all expected it would thrive and grow. The dean took advantage of the department head stepping down and appointed a senior faculty member from another department (a former dean) as interim head to help oversee the division into two departments. Once the division proceeded, an outside head was hired for the new Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and then the retired dean agreed to stay for a year as the head of the new Department of Computer Science while the search for a new head commenced. As the two depart- ments worked through the fission, they had to address issues such as restructuring governance, redoing P&T documents, and so forth. Some space was also reconfig- ured, and an additional staff position was hired to serve CS. The dean believed the separation went smoothly because it came as a recommen- dation from the faculty, therefore no reluctance or distress existed to overcome. It was just a matter of getting the procedures in place and implementing the split. Once on its own, Computer Science benefited from having a clearer institutional identity to recruit students and from greater visibility on campus. The relations between the two groups have stayed positive.