Nobody wants to talk about Michele Moody-Adams. “What exactly the inside story is there, we’re never going to know. I think that’s so old by now, and it’s almost irrelevant,” Christia Mercer, chair of Literature Humanities, says of the former dean’s abrupt resignation. “What’s relevant is that we get it right going ahead.” Moody-Adams’ departure last August, coming on the heels of Claude Steele’s resignation as University provost over the summer, fixed a spotlight on the problems facing both Columbia College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
