Univ. of Wyoming Honors College Welcomes A New Assistant Dean

Breezy Taggart has been named the College of Wyoming’s new Honors School assistant dean following the retirement of former Affiliate Dean Leigh Selting on the finish of the autumn semester, in response to a launch by the College. Taggart will start her new position at UW Friday, January 6.

With a median of 200 college students within the first-year class and greater than 700 college students general, the UW Honors School supplies a various physique of motivated college students with an interdisciplinary educational expertise that positions them for fulfillment. The Honors School challenges college students to assume ethically, creatively, and collaboratively and to domesticate inquiry, reflection, and private development.

Honors college students take interdisciplinary programs uniquely created and taught inside the Honors School whereas incomes an honors undergraduate minor.

Taggart first taught for the Honors School within the spring of 2019, and she or he turned an assistant tutorial professor within the fall of 2021.

She presently directs and teaches within the first-year Honors Colloquium course sequence, and she or he additionally teaches interdisciplinary programs specializing in the intersections of artwork and drugs, and artwork and the atmosphere. Her programs embody;

• Environmental and Sustainability Points in Artwork
• Picturing Psychological Sickness in Literature, Artwork, and Movie
• Explorations in Drugs, Science, and Artwork in Florence, Italy.

Taggart says, “I strongly imagine within the mission of the Honors School that emphasizes interdisciplinary training, experiential studying, and neighborhood. I’m thrilled to help Dean Peter Parolin in main our school to attain this mission with our unimaginable college students.”

Taggart’s different duties for the Honors School have included internet design, advertising, and enhancing the biannual school journal. Her duties as assistant dean will embody oversight of the Honors Colloquium, SOAR curriculum, and school web site in addition to helping the dean with curriculum, price range, grants and scholarships, and school insurance policies and procedures. Moreover, Taggart will collaborate with the Honors School director of scholar success on school recruitment, retention, and evaluation.

UW Honors School, Peter Parolin is pleased to have Taggart on board. He says,

“Honors is very fortunate to have a colleague as multitalented as Breezy Taggart come on board as our assistant dean. She believes within the energy of an interdisciplinary training to organize college students for the world they are going to enter, and she or he is dedicated to serving to college students succeed. She goes to have an exquisite impression on the Honors School and on UW as a complete.”

About Taggart

Taggart, initially from Las Vegas, Nevada is a first-generation school graduate. She earned her bachelor’s (2011) and grasp’s (2013) levels, each from Brigham Younger College, in artwork historical past and curatorial research; and a Ph.D. (2018) in design, atmosphere, and the humanities from Arizona State College.

Her present college bio will be discovered right here.