World Citizens - DePaul University

New Academic Leaders Appointed This Spring
JACQUELINE TAYLOR, Dean of the College of Communication
Jacqueline Taylor will lead the new College of Communication, which will officially come into being July 1.
Taylor, professor of communication, was named associate vice president for Academic Affairs in 2006. Prior to that,
she served for seven years as founding director of the DePaul Humanities Center.
From 1995 to 1999, Taylor served as associate dean of graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences. She chaired the communication department from 1990 to 1995.
In consultation with the department of communication faculty, Provost Helmut Epp selected Taylor this spring.
“Jackie’s infectious enthusiasm, boundless energy and superb administrative skills, along with a great faculty, promise
success for the new College of Communication,” says Epp.
A performance studies specialist, Taylor is the author of “Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives” and a recently
published memoir, “Waiting for the Call.” She earned a Ph.D. in communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
DAVID MILLER, Dean of the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems
The School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) has named David Miller,
associate professor, its new dean. Miller, who joined DePaul in 1981, had been serving as CTI’s interim dean
since 2005.
In 1994, Miller became the associate chair of what was then the department of computer science. When CTI
was established the following year, he was named the school’s first associate dean.
In addition to the recommendation of the university search committee and the support of CTI faculty and staff,
there were several reasons for Miller’s selection over three other finalists from a national search.
“David has a keen understanding of the emerging needs of the information technology sector and a succinct
vision of CTI as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship,” says Epp. “His work with both internal and external
constituents has been essential to CTI’s ability to meet the challenges of maintaining cutting-edge programs
and retaining its reputation for excellence.”
Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University and both a master’s degree
and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
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Scholars and Policy
Experts Examine Images
and Realities of Islam
A former U.S. assistant secretary of defense
and an international panel of Islamic
scholars explored the United States’ evolving
relationship with the Islamic world during
a town-hall-style program hosted by Aminah
Beverly McCloud, director of DePaul’s Islamic
Panelists pictured with McCloud are (from left to
right): Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of Al-Quds
Al-Arabi, a London-based Arabic-language daily
newspaper; Sherman Jackson, associate professor
of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of
Michigan; and Richard Perle, an American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research fellow and former
U.S. assistant secretary of defense. (Not shown:
Panelist Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman
Professor of Government and director of the Institute
of African Studies at Columbia University.)
world studies program, in late February.
More than 400 people attended the event at
DePaul University’s Merle Reskin Theatre.
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