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Sep 29, 2011

Seeing the Message

Dean Braden welcomed President Obama to NC State. Most people who were lucky enough to snag a ticket for President Obama’s recent speech at Reynolds Coliseum heard NC State’s marching band play a brassy fanfare in honor of the Commander in Chief. They heard the tiny clicks and whirs of thousands of digital cameras attempting…

Jun 23, 2011

The Dean’s Corner: Arab Spring

Arab Spring: What’s CHASS got to do with it? The spring of 2011 will be remembered for protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, for the departure of Tunisian President Ben Ali, and for events still in the making as I write this column. As the world watches the protests, civil war, and uprisings, scholars in the…

Mar 21, 2011

Dean Jeff Braden Reflects on A Father’s Ethical Legacy

I recently traveled to a senior center in Milwaukee to hear the Bruce M. Braden Memorial Ethics Lecture. The name of the lecture was no accident; it was named in memory of my father, who was a founding member of the center’s Ethics Committee. Although I always enjoy visiting the center (among other reasons, it’s…

Mar 16, 2011

Dean for a Day Diaries

On February 10, 2011, CHASS Dean Jeff Braden switched places with sophomore Communication major Sarah Hager. He took her classes (and her radio shift at WKNC). She spent the day in meetings with fellow deans, with college administrators and department heads, even with an Advisory Board member. Here are their reflections on the experience. Dean…

Feb 7, 2011

Dean brown bags it with students

This article was published by Technician on Tuesday, February 1, 2011. By Joshua Chappell, Senior Staff Writer Twice a semester for over two years, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Jeffery Braden has been sitting down with students for a brown-bag lunch. On Tuesday, Braden hosted another one of these lunches for students in…

Feb 6, 2011

Upcoming: CHASS Dean for a Day!

On Thursday, February 10, CHASS Dean Jeff Braden and Sophomore Sarah Hager will trade places. Both will experience a day on the NC State campus from an entirely new perspective. Sarah was chosen for the role after submitting the winning essay in a competition judged by CHASS student ambassadors. As the face of the College…

Nov 15, 2010

The Dean’s Corner: The Power of Poetry

I recently attended two events that seemed at first blush to be quite different: a poetry reading (delivered in Arabic and English) sponsored by CHASS, and a dinner of US Special Operations Command officers to which I’d been invited by Col. Ken Rataschack, Commander of NC State’s ROTC unit. The contrast between the two groups…

Nov 4, 2010

It takes a village to install a chancellor

When W. Randolph Woodson was installed as North Carolina State University’s 14th chancellor on October 26, CHASS was integral every step of the way. The ceremony, with the theme of “Locally responsive. Globally engaged,” was held in NC State’s Reynolds Coliseum. Providing CHASS bookends to the ceremony, Professor of Music Mark Scearce composed the music…

Oct 11, 2010

Dean sits down with students over lunch

Hey, CHASS students! Do you say what you mean and mean what you say? Well, here’s your chance. CHASS Dean Jeff Braden is holding a series of brown bag lunches to get students’ thoughts on classes, the college and student life. Lauren Bishop (Philosophy, ‘12) was among the group that had lunch with the dean…

Aug 24, 2010

Dean Braden on Big Ideas Discovered

It’s contagious: the promise, hope, anxiety, and anticipation a new school year brings is catching. I shared some of that excitement with our new students and their parents as I helped some freshmen move into their dorms, played surrogate parent at the recent NC State Legacy Luncheon (as I did with freshman Molly Graham at…