University Times

Beverly Harris- Schenz, vice provost for Faculty Affairs, will become associate dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

She will chair the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Council and head the assistant deans and other professionals who provide CAS academic services.

Arts and Sciences Dean-elect N. John Cooper called Harris-Schenz "an outstanding teacher who will help further the quality and effectiveness of the undergraduate education in arts and sciences. While serving as the German language program director, she created an exemplary program for the training of teaching assistants involved in language instruction."

Harris-Schenz joined Pitt's Germanic languages and literatures faculty in 1974 after teaching at Rice University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

She was CAS assistant dean from 1980 to 1985. Harris-Schenz received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988.

Nationally, she chaired the Foreign Language Advisory Committee of the College Board (1986-1990) and the German Achievement Test Development Committee for Educational Testing Services (1985-1989) and was a member of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Advisory Committee to the Modern Language Association (1990-1992).

Harris-Schenz received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and her doctorate from Stanford.