Colleges and departments being realigned

Autumn Hill HIL02020@BYUI.EDU Campus Editor

Change is in the air, and it’s drifting in the direction of some of the campus academic departments and colleges.

Effective January 2006, the College of Education, which had three departments, is handing the Physical Education Department over to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

The other two departments, Home and Family and Teacher Education, are combining with the three of the four departments from the College of Religious Education and Social Sciences to form the new College of Education and Human Development.

The fourth department, the Department of History, Political Science and Geography, is leaving the College of Religious Education and Social Sciences to join up with the College of Language and Letters.

Eric Walz, dean of the Department of History, Political Science and Geography, said he had no problems with the change.

The only difference would be “meeting with a different group of folks when I get together for college meetings,” he said.