The dust settles...what remains.

I received an email updating me on the situation. I have been wholly consumed with my other responsibilities. What follows is a modified annotation of the details.

Currently, computer science here at WWU is technically not a department, but a program. Even though there is no departmental chair for computer science, everything else is pretty much the same. Jim Klein is in charge of academic and curricular issues for CS, and Ken Wiggins is in charge of the budget. The request for establishing criteria for reinstating CS as a department has been submitted to administration and they have conveyed agreement with the request. These criteria will probably be determined during the 2009-2010 school year.

The courses that Anthony Aaby taught have been divided among Jonathan Duncan, Larry Aamodt, and Jim Klein. Jonathan Duncan has a double major in Math and CS from WWU, graduating in the class of 1997. He recently completed his masters in computer science along with a PhD in math at Indiana University. Jonathan’s involvement in CS is on loan from the math department for two years.

Jim Klein is heading up the creation of a CS advisory board to lend more weight to the opinions of CS alumni to better equip the department to address issues regarding computer science with the WWU administration and university board.