Downtown Phoenix’s scenery these days is as much a scene of construction cranes as it is skyscrapers defining the skyline, but the payoff will soon be evident.
Kimberly Marshall, Goldman professor of organ, is the new Herberger College of the Arts School of Music director. Since August 2006, when Wayne Bailey stepped down after a six-year term as director, Marshall has pulled out all the stops as the school’s interim director.
ASU's executive vice president and provost, Elizabeth D. Capaldi, recently announced organizational changes for the Polytechnic and West campuses as part of the next steps in ASU's decentralization of academic functions.
Len Gordon, professor emeritus of sociology, has been named dean of the Emeritus College , beginning July 1. He will succeed Richard Jacob, the college's founding dean.
Perhaps the current occupants of the Downtown Phoenix post office don't have quite as colorful histories as some of the luminaries involved during the project's inception during the early 1900s.