On Friday, the news desk’s Yasmin Gagne spoke to the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s newly appointed executive vice dean, Donald Goldfarb. The position was established several weeks ago in response to many SEAS faculty members calling for the firing of Dean Feniosky Peña-Mora. Highlights from the interview with Goldfarb:
Goldfarb acknowledged that Peña-Mora “has not really communicated well and gotten the trust of the faculty,” saying he will work to “try to provide better communication between the Dean and the faculty and try to address miscommunication.” On the source of the faculty’s frustrations, Goldfarb said that Peña-Mora, who came to Columbia in 2009, was “just learning and came in without much experience”:
