{"id":129159,"date":"2017-09-06T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=129159"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:54:24","slug":"interim-dean-values-colleges-people-centered-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/09\/interim-dean-values-colleges-people-centered-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim dean values College\u2019s people-centered culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a former undergraduate student, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, interim department head, department head, associate dean and, now, current interim dean,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/animalscience.uconn.edu\/faculty\/Cameron%20Faustman.php\">Cameron Faustman<\/a>\u00a0has a deep and wide knowledge of the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) and its people. He has nearly 29 years of professional experience in the College.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a great place to work. We are not perfect, but the total culture is a pretty good one,\u201d said Faustman, who began as interim dean of CAHNR and director of the Cooperative Extension System and Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He especially appreciates that the College values a people-centered approach to learning. According to Faustman, undergraduate and graduate students truly matter and have ready access to CAHNR\u2019s faculty through their student advising.<\/p>\n<p>This emphasis on people continues to make an impression on former students into their adult lives. He sees this reflected in alumni support for the College and a donor base comprised of mostly individuals instead of only industry groups. \u201cI want to advocate and champion this unique aspect of our college culture,\u201d Faustman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturally.uconn.edu\/2017\/09\/05\/interim-dean-values-colleges-people-centered-culture\/\">Read the full article at Naturally@UConn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former undergraduate student, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, interim department head, department head, associate dean and, now, current interim dean,\u00a0Cameron Faustman\u00a0has a deep and wide knowledge of the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) and its people. He has nearly 29 years of professional experience in the College. \u201cIt is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":129160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1871],"class_list":["post-129159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 17:20:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/129160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129159"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=129159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=129159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}