By Alyssa Allemand
Dean Pribbenow, vice president for academic affairs (VPAA) and academic dean, is resigning from Edgewood College on Jan. 2, 2020. He has served as VPAA since July 2012.
On Dec. 13, Pribbenow announced his resignation to colleagues via email. The subject-line of the email said, “Do Not Forward: Recipients can’t forward, print, or copy content.”
Margaret Noreuil, dean of the Henry Predolin School of Nursing, will serve as interim VPAA, according to Pribbenow’s letter.
Prior to being VPAA, Pribbenow was Edgewood College’s dean of the School of Integrative Studies for over five years.
Pribbenow’s resignation follows a semester of tension around program prioritization, restructuring, and faculty and staff layoffs.
Pribbenow and other Edgewood faculty did not return requests for comment on Pribbenow’s resignation. Edgewood Director of Strategic Communications Ed Taylor declined to comment for the Wisconsin State Journal.
None of the decisions regarding program changes and layoffs have been made public yet. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, both Taylor and the college’s Chair of the Board of Trustees Lucy Keane declined to say which majors have been targeted because Edgewood “is still in the process of restructuring.”
Keane and Taylor also did not comment on the number of faculty who took voluntary separation packages.
But the number was enough to avoid laying off tenure and tenure-track faculty, Gevelinger wrote in an email to faculty and staff on Dec. 12.
Gevelinger said those losing their jobs will receive letters in the mail around Dec. 16. No announcements have been made yet.
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