<p>[Dean</a> Michele Moody-Adams to step down in June 2012 according to email to alums (UPDATED: Bollinger asks Moody-Adams to step down immediately) | Spectrum](<a href=“http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/dean-michele-moody-adams-to-allegedly-step-down-in-june-2012]Dean”>http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/dean-michele-moody-adams-to-allegedly-step-down-in-june-2012)</p>
<p>UPDATE 10:22 a.m.: President Bollinger has released a statement asking Dean Moody-Adams to resign immediately:</p>
<pre><code>I have accepted Dean Moody-Adamss decision to resign as Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education. In her position as dean and vice president, we had looked forward to her playing a central role in shaping the academic administration of the College to ensure the finest educational experience for our students, and had hoped that she would be a key voice in the ongoing discussions involving faculty, alumni and administrators about how to position the College even more centrally in the life of Columbias Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Under the circumstances, it is in the best interests of the College and the University that she step down immediately so that we can have an Interim Dean in place at the beginning of the new academic year.
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Earlier this afternoon, Spectator received a tip from an alum that Dean Michele Moody-Adams has submitted her resignation, effective June 30, 2012.**</p>
<p>The tip was in the form of an email that Dean Moody-Adams sent to a group of alumni. Spectator has confirmed that multiple alums did receive this email and that it is from Dean Moody-Adams, but we have not received independent confirmation from anyone in the University administration.</p>
<p>In the email, Dean Moody-Adams cites changes to the administrative structure of the Arts and Sciences, that will have the effect of diminishing and in some important instances eliminating the authority of the Dean of the College over crucial policy, fund-raising and budgetary matters, as her reason for resigning at the end of the upcoming academic year.</p>
<p>Additionally, Dean Moody-Adams claims that she has quietly fought these changes, but that Just a very few days ago, it was made clear to me [Moody-Adams] that the structural transformations intended to fundamentally alter decision-making in and for the College cannot be stopped.</p>
<p>For the full text of the email:.</p>
<pre><code>August 20th, 2011
Dear Friends,
It is with a very heavy heart that I send you this news. Columbia University has begun plans to transform the administrative structure in Arts and Sciences. The planned changes will have the effect of diminishing and in some important instances eliminating the authority of the Dean of the College over crucial policy, fund-raising and budgetary matters.
During my tenure as Dean, I have repeatedly voiced concern that changes of this kind will ultimately compromise the Colleges academic quality and financial health. In my time here, I have quietly and respectfully sought the counsel of many of you about how to have my voice heard. I believed until very recently that, given the quality of my contributions to Columbia and the success of many of my efforts here, my concerns might be taken seriously. Just a very few days ago, it was made clear to me that the structural transformations intended to fundamentally alter decision-making in and for the College cannot be stopped.
Because I cannot in good conscience carry out a role that I believe to be detrimental to the welfare of the College, I have submitted my resignation as Dean of Columbia College, effective June 30, 2012. In my final year as Dean, I will work towards a seamless transition and continue to adhere to the values that I have promoted for 27 years in higher education: academic excellence, professionalism at every level of the organization, administrative transparency and fiscal responsibility. On July 1, 2012 I will look forward to strengthening my connections to my tenure home in Philosophy as the Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory.
I believe in offering my best as an administrator, educator and scholar and in doing the right things by the constituents I serve. Columbia is developing a structure that will no longer allow me to do that as Dean. I nonetheless thank you for your support during my tenure as Dean.
Sincerely Yours,
Michele M. Moody-Adams
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<p>Is a tempest brewing in the skies of CC?</p>