From our college newsletter (Continuum):
When Tim Haab took the reins as chair of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics on October 1, 2010, he knew he'd face some challenges-- challenges "that most everyone in higher education is facing these days." The department had shrunk from 31 to 21 faculty members in recent years, but Haab credits former chair Alan Randall for ably handling budget cuts through attrition instead of layoffs.
Now, the top-ranked department (No. 1 in Agricultural and Resource Economics according to the National Research Council) has hired two new faculty members and is in the process of bringing in one more.
"Basically, we're a department of teachers," Haab said. "We teach students, we teach other faculty, and we teach the community."
It goes on. And it was accompanied by a picture (I added the commentary).
