Interim
Dean of Student Life Margaret Bass has
vision. Sure, she has a window looking out at the foothills of the
Adirondack Mountains. But as the
interim vice president and dean of student life and co-curricular
education, she also has a great view of the entire student life
division of the University, and her ideas for the division and the
university are equally expansive.
“I’m so excited to be working with
the students;
I love working and being with students,” she says. She
has been doing so for years at St. Lawrence, teaching Caribbean and
African American literature and now, in her new position, overseeing
the University’s Higher Education
Opportunity Program (HEOP), Collegiate Science and Technology
Entry Program (CSTEP),
and McNair, Presidential
Diversity Scholar and Jeffrey Campbell
Fellows programs.
Now, she has the chance to interact with
all of the students at St. Lawrence, and she plans on making the
most of this opportunity. “I
want to be where the students are and be highly visible so the
students know who I am,” she says. She is well
known on campus, she wants each student to get to know her and know
that they can talk to her. She
regularly has lunch and dinner with the students in order to hear
their opinions about issues on campus.
“Since I’m not asking the students to come to me, I hope
to interact with everyone,” she says.
