(
c o n t i n u e d )
The
College Names
New Dean
of
the School of
Arts and Sciences
In
announcing Dr. Richard Thompson’s
appointment, Dr. Sweeny
said, “Dr. Thompson is a very experienced, committed educator who comes
to assume leadership of the School of Arts and Sciences possessing
impressive personal gifts and professional expertise. As we embark on
our next hundred years as a leading liberal arts institution, we are
confident that Dr. Thompson will be an effective leader for SAS and a
strong advocate for the value of single-sex education for women.”
Dr. Thompson joins CNR after
an 18-year career at
Wheelock
College in Boston, initially as a faculty member, and most recently as
Dean of Child and Family Studies. His career has included positions as
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the College of Medicine,
University of Chicago, and Director of the Child Life and Family
Education
Department, University of Chicago Medical Center; as well as child-life
oriented positions with Edgewood College (MN), Utica College of
Syracuse University (NY), and Minneapolis Children’s Health Center
(MN).
A prolific author, Dr.
Thompson has written
several books and
articles on children in hospital settings, participated in national
research projects on this topic, and served as Co-Editor of Children’s
Health Care, a research journal on the psychosocial care of
children
and families in pediatric settings.
Dr. Thompson was graduated
from Carleton College with a B.A. in
History, the University of Louisville with an M.A.T. in Elementary
Education, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a Ph.D.
in Child and Family Studies. He, his wife, and two daughters
reside in
New Rochelle.
