Dedication

In Fall 2001, the Faculty Senate and the central administration agreed that the Faculty Handbook needed a complete review and revision. They asked Marian Moffett to chair the taskforce. They knew that an exceptional person with great personal integrity, experience and skill would be needed to guide this effort where almost every decision would have a constituency with a position to resolve. Marian was the ideal choice. Using a combination of a willingness to consider alternatives, patience, determination and dashes of humor, Marian steered the revision forward both inside the taskforce and outside through the many organizations and faculty members involved in the process. Apart from all of the meetings and discussions, Marian spent hundreds of hours recording the revisions of the text of new and old chapters, revising the revisions, and working to make these revisions available in a reviewable format for others. As the interest of others waxed and waned in the process, Marian was constant, always working to achieve a document that would proudly encompass the state of the faculty’s relationship to students, faculty colleagues, staff, the University as a whole, and the communities beyond. She never lost sight of the need to finish, and Marian was there in Spring 2004 when the senate completed its approval process of the revised Handbook. Sadly, Professor Moffett passed away suddenly in Fall 2004 before the finishing touches of the revision could be completed. The taskforce, the faculty and the administration dedicate this revised Faculty Handbook to Marian S. Moffett, who made it possible.