December

Leadership Updates in CCI, CoE and BIOMED
Beginning in January, Dean Yi Deng of CCI and Dean Sharon Walker of CoE will go on sabbatical. During this time of transition, CoE and CCI will have interim leadership, effective January 1, 2025. Kapil Dandekar, PhD, E. Warren Colehower Chair Professor and associate dean for enrollment management and graduate education in CoE, will assume the role of interim dean of the College of Engineering. Ali Shokoufandeh, PhD, senior associate dean for academic affairs and operations of CCI, will serve as interim dean of the College of Computing & Informatics.
Working Groups Launch for Academic Transformation
An initial set of working groups has been formed to lead the design and implementation of Drexel’s Academic Transformation. The membership of these groups was selected in collaboration with the Faculty Senate and is listed below in the postscript.