Academic year 2009–10 will see a number of changes to top-level administrators of doctoral programs, certificate programs, and research centers.

Seven members of the doctoral faculty have agreed to serve as program executive officers for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2009: Professor Peter Consenstein (French); Professor Gerald Creed (Anthropology); Professor Jean Graham-Jones (Theatre); Professor Klara Marton (Speech—Language—Hearing Sciences); Professor Joe Rollins (Political Science); Professor Helena Rosenblatt (History); and Professor Merih Uctum (Economics).

While four executive officers are on leave, the following faculty members have agreed to step into the roles of acting executive officer: for the entire academic year, Professor Patricia Mainardi (Art History), Professor Rachel Brownstein (Liberal Studies), Professor Robert Fiengo (Linguistics); and during the fall semester, Professor Vincent Crapanzano (Comparative Literature).

Academic year 2009–10 will also see changes to the heads of three subprograms in psychology: Professor Colette Daiute (Developmental Psychology), Professor Cindi Katz (Environmental Psychology), and Professor Charles Scherbaum (Industrial and Organizational Psychology).

There have been additional changes to the Graduate Center’s seven interdisciplinary certificate programs (CP). The recently approved CP in demography (see related article on p.6), will be coordinated by Neil G. Bennett, professor of sociology at Baruch College and the GC; and Victoria Pitts-Taylor, associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the GC, has been appointed to a three-year term as coordinator of the CP in Women’s Studies.

Finally, the GC welcomes the following newly appointed heads of centers: Roger Hart, director of the Center for Human Environments; Brenda Wineapple, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography; and Victoria Pitts-Taylor, who will assume the position of director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society in November.