<p>I came across this quote from 11 June 06 Dartmouth Review and wonder if anyone has knowledge or can comment: "And neither is Appleton the only faculty member to announce his depature from Dartmouth in recent days. Professor Michael Gazzaniga 61 of the Psychology and Brain Sciences Department, a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience, will leave Dartmouth along with Appleton after the fall term for the University of California at Santa Barbara. Though Gazzaniga was offered the chance to direct a new center at UCSB that would take a broader approach to the study of the mind, this incentive does not fully explain his decision to leave the College. Not only will he be leaving behind the brand-new Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience, for which he and other Dartmouth researchers recently secured a National Science Foundation grant, he also has great personal attachment to the College, being himself a Dartmouth alumnus.</p>
<p>Gazzaniga resigned from his position of Dean of the Faculty in the spring of 2004 after a vote of no confidence of the Committee of Chairs, an assembly that includes the heads of each department as well as the heads of interdisciplinary programs such as Environmental Studies and Women and Gender Studies. The votes nominal reason was that faculty doubted Gazzanigas abilities as an administrator. However, the deeper issue at stake was that humanities and social scientists professors felt that Gazzaniga, as a scientist, lacked the appropriate sensitivities to administer a liberal arts college."</p>